Image: the United Nations' Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) conducts training for Mali's National Guard and Police. Credit: UN Photo/Marco Dormino.
The SIPRI Update for September 2014 is out now—read it online, or subscribe to receive the SIPRI Update in your inbox each month.
In this issue we present an essay by Jaïr van der Lijn and Xenia Avezov on the preliminary results from SIPRI's New Geopolitics of Peace Operations Initiative, which suggest that consensus remains possible in the future peace operations landscape:
The search for clarity on the limitations and opportunities for international conflict management in an increasingly multipolar world is particularly relevant in light of the recently announced review of UN peace operations. In contrast to the commonly feared and expected paralysis in the international system, and in light of the highly politicized and polarized debate at the UN in New York, some of the preliminary findings from the regional dialogues reveal a surprising convergence of views on the potential for future cooperation between emerging and established powers.
Read the full essay online or browse the full list of SIPRI Essays from 2009 to 2014.