Policy Diffusion in State Troop Contributions to UN Peacekeeping

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Brief Overview

This paper explains cross-national variation in UN peacekeeping troop contributions from a policy diffusion framework. Using data on 193 states & 59 missions(1990-2020), I test learning, emulation, competition, and coercion with mixed-effects models.

Author

• Xiaoyu Si, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences