Abstract
This article argues that the political orientation of the government in office in a country may affect its positioning regarding the United Nations Peace Operations. In order to demonstrate that, in this study I compare what is said by officials of leftist and rightist Latin American countries about peacekeeping in UNSC, since the 1990s.
Highlights
There is an increasing number of Peace Operations established by the United Nations (UN) since the end of the Cold War
This article argues that the political orientation of the government in office in a country may affect its discourse regarding the United Nations Peace Operations, using content analysis to compare what has been said by officials of leftist and rightist Latin American countries about peacekeeping in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), since the 1990s
In this work, I intend to look for the impact of a domestic variable on the debate about these operations: I will investigate if the political orientation of Latin American governments led to changes in their discourses regarding Peace Operations since the Left Turn
Summary
There is an increasing number of Peace Operations established by the United Nations (UN) since the end of the Cold War. In order to do that, I will compare discourses of all right and left-wing Latin American governments which had representatives’ speeches in United Nations Security Council (UNSC), before and after the Left Turn ( from 1990 to 2017), in meetings related to general debate about Peacekeeping operations. I start presenting a brief history of the Peace Operations since its beginning, trying to identify changes in their mandates along the time and highlight the role of variables related to the international level. It is important because makes clear what is already said by the literature (KENKEL, 2013; BELLAMY, 2013, among others). I will present the results of the analysis, showing that variables related to the international level impact on these speeches, but political orientation has effects on it
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