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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How the United States Can Strengthen UN Peacekeeping and Support International Peace and Security
Description: One of the most visible tools of international cooperation on peace and security are UN Peacekeepers -- Blue Helmets. Today there are about 95,000 uniformed personnel deployed to to 13 missions around the world. Though the United States deploys very few boots on the ground to peacekeeping missions, it is the single largest funder of UN Peacekeeping. And, as a veto-wielding member of the Security Council, it also determines where peacekeepers should be sent. This means that the United States hold tremendous potential to determine the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping. Victoria Holt has spent a career studying wh...