"The West and 'the rest'"?: Critiquing the 'hierarchical assumption' of global peace enforcement capacity by Kaplan, J

“…I next contrast the capacity and mission effectiveness of four cases – the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka, the Nigerian-led Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOWAS) in Liberia, the US in Somalia, and the UK in Sierra Leone–to demonstrate how such broad divisions between Northern and Southern PE capability and efficacy are blurred in practice. …”