Grad, Calvin Jonathan Ryan (2025) Neutrality and UN Peacekeeping: A Paradox? Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Neutrality has continuously been a foundation in international relations, while the implications of military personnel contributions to United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions continue to be undiscovered. This thesis explored the influencing variables for military personnel contributions from the neutral countries of Austria, Ireland and Switzerland. Following a quantitative approach, this research examined five independent variables (IV), military expenditure as a percentage of GDP, size of the military, number of UN peacekeeping missions attended, GDP per capita PPP, and population size, and their correlation to the dependent variable (DV) of military personnel contributions. The results demonstrated that four IVs, military expenditure, size of the military, number of peacekeeping missions attended, and population size, had strong negative correlations with military personnel contributions. Illustrating that higher values in these variables correlate with fewer contributions. Contrastingly, GDP per capita PPP revealed a moderate positive correlation with the DV, implying that wealthier neutral countries are more likely to contribute military personnel. The findings underlined the intricate relationship between economic ability, national interest, and international responsibilities. Through incorporating aspects from constructivism and institutional theory, the thesis emphasises the impact of legal frameworks, societal norms, and national identity on the actions of neutral nations. The study fills a gap in the existing English, French, and German literature by merging the fields of neutrality and UN peacekeeping. This aimed to provide a basis for future research to investigate further political and historical factors on the matter of neutrality. Finally, this thesis contributed to the understanding of how neutrality formed the global-local connections between peacekeeping obligations and national limitations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Zwitter, A.J. |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2025 09:22 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jun 2025 09:22 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/680 |
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