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Blue Helmets and White Armor multi–nationalism and multi–culturalism among UN peacekeeping forces
Author(s) -
BenAri Eyal,
Elron Efrat
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.2001.13.2.271
Subject(s) - peacekeeping , allegiance , nationalism , transnationalism , political science , culturalism , cosmopolitanism , ethnography , political economy , sociology , law , politics , anthropology
Multi‐national peace‐keeping forces as organizations are characterized by an inherent tension between national and transnational belonging. Derived from a wider ethnography of peacekeeping, this article focuses on these military missions as transnational sites and explores the implications of this tension between national belonging and allegiance and membership and operations within an international framework.The data is derived from interviews and focus groups with military and civilian personnel in the main peacekeeping forces in and around Israel and in a number of military forces around the world. [Cosmopolitanism, the military, transnationalism, peace‐keeping, United Nations]