Sponsoring resolutions on civil wars in the UN security council 1

Fang-Yi Chiou2, Simon Hug3, Bjørn Høyland 4 
Paper proposed for presentation at the conference
The Political Economy of International Organizations
(Madison, February 8-10, 2018)


Abstract

The United Nations Security Council alone has the power, under chapter VII, to adopt binding resolutions concerning intervention in civil wars through peace keeping missions. While some research has focused on the conditions under which such resolutions are adopted or rejected (most often due to a veto by a permanent member), we know little what influences whether such resolutions are introduced for consideration by the UNSC, or put differently, who sponsors such resolutions. This is problematic as the absence of an adopted resolution, for instance for creating a peace keeping operation might be due to the absence of a sponsor for such a resolution or a negative vote on a resolution introduced. In part as a consequence, sponsorship decisions by the members of the UNSC are quite likely to be affected by the likelihood of winning approval by the fifteen members of the UNSC and the sponsorship decisions of other members. We propose an empirical approach that allows taking these interdependencies into account, and, when evaluating commonly used explanatory variables for the adoption of peace-keeping missions, we find results contradicting previous findings on the adoptions of such resolutions.

Footnotes:

1The partial financial support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. 100012-129737) is greatly appreciated
2  IPSAS, Academia Sinica, Taipei; email: fangyichiou@gmail.com
3  Département de science politique et relations internationales, Faculté des sciences de la société ; Université de Genève; 40 Bd du Pont d'Arve; 1211 Genève 4; Switzerland; phone +41 22 379 83 78; email: simon.hug@unige.ch
4  Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Postbox 1097, Blindern, 0317 Oslo Norway ; phone +4722858598 ; email: bjorn.hoyland@stv.uio.no

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