ABSTRACT

Within the field of international peace and security, policy makers and analysts alike commonly treat collaboration and convergence among international organizations and intervention frameworks as a policy objective in itself. Indeed, from the focus on the ‘comprehensive approach’, during the 2000s, to the recent emphasis on multi-dimensional and integrated stabilization frameworks, institutional collaboration is cast as inherently positive and desirable in regard to addressing international collective matters. This article challenges such ‘collaboration bias’. It does so by exploring the empirical effects of increasing collaboration and ‘strategic partnerships’ within the context of the current (re)turn to stabilization interventions. Specifically, focusing on Mali, it unpacks how contemporary stabilization efforts intensify collaboration across counterterrorism and peacekeeping interventions in ways that undercut policy implementation within one of the most central peacekeeping priority areas, namely the Protection of Civilians (PoC). In detailing key aspects on which contemporary peacekeeping-counterterrorism entanglements compromise protection efforts, the article conveys some of the ‘dark sides’ of cooperation regimes. It moreover highlights the need to not only explore regime complexity as a systemic feature of world politics but also unpack how it operates, and to what effect, at the meso and micro levels of policy implementation and practice.

摘要

在国际和平与安全领域中，决策者和分析家通常都将国际组织之间的协作与融合以及干预框架本身视为一项政策目标。的确，从2000年代开始关注“全面方法”到最近强调多维和综合稳定框架，在解决国际集体事务方面，机构合作被认为具有内在的积极性和可取性。本文对这种“合作偏见”提出了挑战。它是通过探索在当前（重新）转向稳定干预的背景下加强合作和“战略伙伴关系”的经验效果来实现的。具体来说，专注于马里，它揭示了当代稳定努力如何加强反恐和维和行动之间的合作，从而削弱了最重要的维和优先领域之一，即“保护平民”的政策实施。在详细阐述当代维和行动与恐怖主义之间的纠缠损害保护努力的关键方面时，本文传达了合作制度的某些“阴暗面”。此外，它强调了不仅需要将政权复杂性作为世界政治的系统特征来探讨，而且还需要揭示其在政策实施和实践的中观和微观层面上的运作方式以及产生的影响。即平民保护（PoC）。在详细阐述当代维和行动与恐怖主义之间的纠缠损害保护努力的关键方面时，本文传达了合作制度的某些“阴暗面”。此外，它强调了不仅需要将政权复杂性作为世界政治的系统特征来探讨，而且还需要揭示其在政策实施和实践的中观和微观层面上的运作方式以及产生的影响。即平民保护（PoC）。在详细阐述当代维和行动与恐怖主义之间的纠缠损害保护努力的关键方面时，本文传达了合作制度的某些“阴暗面”。此外，它强调了不仅需要将政权复杂性作为世界政治的系统特征来探讨，而且还需要揭示其在政策实施和实践的中观和微观层面上的运作方式以及产生的影响。