Why America Should Rejoin UN Peacekeeping Missions
Providing troops now would go far in signaling a change in the U.S. approach to the world from the era of the presidency of George W. Bush, an epoch that continues to cast a shadow on American foreign policy.
Arslan Malik teaches at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has served in four UN peacekeeping operations in Africa. During the Obama Administration, he worked at the U.S. Department of State as Senior Policy Advisor for UN Peacekeeping and, subsequently, as a member of the Policy Planning Staff.
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