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Replication Data for: Extra-territorial interventions in conflict spaces: Explaining the geographies of post-Cold War peacekeeping (with Richard Perkins), Political Geography, 27 (8), 2008, pp. 895-914

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Title Replication Data for: Extra-territorial interventions in conflict spaces: Explaining the geographies of post-Cold War peacekeeping (with Richard Perkins), Political Geography, 27 (8), 2008, pp. 895-914
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5PJSVE
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The period since the end of the Cold War has presided over a dramatic expansion in the number of
multilateral peacekeeping operations (PKOs). Yet individual states have varied significantly in their enthusiasm
for peacekeeping and, moreover, demonstrated a greater propensity to participate in operations located
in certain countries than others. Our contribution in the present paper is to provide new insights into how
geography underpins these spatial variations. Uniquely, we make use of a geographically disaggregated dataset
of multilateral PKOs, which allows us to capture various dyadic linkages between sending and receiving
countries. Our results confirm previous work indicating that more democratic countries are more likely to
participate in PKOs, but extend these findings by showing that countries’ commitment to human rights has
a similar positive influence. We also show that aspects of spatial proximity (physical distance, same region)
and relational proximity (colonial ties) between potential sending and receiving states raise the likelihood
of participation. Yet we find that two relational variables widely discussed in the literature as possible
correlates of peaceful interactions - bilateral trade and joint membership of intergovernmental organisations
(IGOs) - have no statistically discernable influence on countries’ involvement in particular PKOs.
 
Subject Social Sciences
conflict
country dyads
extra-territorial
peacekeeping
proximity
relational
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric