ABSTRACT The concept of friction is applied to challenge the assumption that the main goal of peace support operations is to permanently stabilise a country. By exploring missions in Somalia and Mali, where neighbouring states are the main troop contributors, we suggest to focus on the interaction among troop-contributing countries within missions. They express how national interests play out in the framework of international organisations. Even when a mission deploys, rules that should define how cooperation is to occur during deployment are lacking, especially when they contradict national interests of individual troop contributors. The result is mission incoherence and fragmentation.

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国家利益为摩擦：索马里和马里的维持和平

摘要摩擦的概念是用来挑战以下假设的，即维持和平行动的主要目标是永久稳定一个国家。通过探索在邻国是主要部队派遣国的索马里和马里的特派团，我们建议着重研究特派团内部部队派遣国之间的互动。它们表达了国家利益在国际组织框架内如何发挥作用。即使在特派团部署时，也缺乏应定义在部署期间如何进行合作的规则，尤其是当它们与个别部队派遣国的国家利益相抵触时。结果是任务不连贯和碎片化。