| Sumari: | <p>Increased demand for peacekeeping, rising resource requirements, and capacity constraints threaten to outstrip the willingness of the international community to shoulder the burden of peace operations. Not only has peacekeeping grown in size, but it has also become an increasingly complex undertaking involving a multitude of actors. This thesis addresses this challenge and asks: How does the international community share the burden of peace operations? The thesis argues that the question of peacekeeping burden-sharing emerges and requires exploration at various levels of analysis, most notably the global, regional, and national level. Three research articles explore peacekeeping burden-sharing each at one level of analysis. The first article, ‘Partnership Peacekeeping: The Division of Labour Between the United Nations and Regional Organisations’, develops and tests a framework for the division of the peacekeeping labour at the global level, specifically between the United Nations, African Union, and European Union, employing a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis. The second article, ‘Negotiating Collective Peace: The Provision of Troops to EU Peace Operations’, examines the role of interrelationships between EU member states in the context of troop contributions to regional peace operations by means of panel data regressions on an original dataset of troop contributions to EU operations. The third article, ‘Public Attention, Elections, and Peace Operations: Democratising the Making of Peacekeeping Policy’, focuses on the national level and analyses whether countries’ peacekeeping contributions are adjusted in the run-up to elections contingent upon public attention; the analysis deploys Google search data as a measure for public attention in panel data regression models. This multi-level approach generates a comprehensive understanding of burden-sharing in peace operations and insights into how to increase its efficiency and effectiveness, with the objective to ensure that peacekeeping can succeed as the international community’s primary tool for creating and maintaining international peace and security.</p>
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