International Studies Review (2020) 0, 1–26 ANALYTICAL ESSAY Pinioning the Peacekeepers: Sovereignty, Host-State Resistance against Peacekeeping Missions, and Violence against Civilians A LLARD D UURSMA ETH Zürich Why and how do host-states resist contemporary peacekeeping missions? This article puts forward the argument that host-state resistance against peacekeepers is a strategy to balance challenges to the internal and exter- nal faces of a civil war state’s sovereignty. Government officials might see an intense counter-insurgency campaign as an effective way to regain the monopoly on violence and thus strengthen the internal sovereignty of the state, but this will often lead to criticism from the international community and thus also lead to an erosion of the external sovereignty of the state. Conversely, the acceptance of a peacekeeping mission can strengthen a civil war state’s external sovereignty as this acceptance signals a willingness to manage armed violence, but the deployment of peacekeepers is at the expense of internal sovereignty as it often limits the ability of government troops to conduct their counter-insurgency efforts. States can resolve this dilemma by accepting a peacekeeping mission to prop up their external sovereignty, but at the same time trying to limit the effectiveness of peacekeepers in those areas where peacekeeping activities potentially interfere with the efforts of government troops to regain the monopoly on the use of violence. The article zooms in on how the Sudanese gov- ernment accepted the deployment of the United Nations–African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), but at the same undermined its civilian protection efforts, though other cases are considered as well. Resumen:¿Por qué y cómo los estados de acogida resisten las misiones contemporáneas para preservar la paz? En este artículo se argumenta que la resistencia de los estados de acogida frente a las fuerzas que se encargan de preservar la paz es una estrategia para equilibrar los desafíos de los aspectos internos y externos de la soberanía de un estado de guerra civil. Puede que los funcionarios del gobierno vean una intensa campaña de contrainsurgencia a modo de método efectivo para recuperar el monopolio de la violencia y así fortalecer la soberanía interna del estado, pero a menudo, esto da lugar a las críticas de la comunidad internacional y también a una erosión de la soberanía externa del estado. En cambio, la aceptación de una misión para preservar la paz puede fortalecer la soberanía externa de un estado de guerra civil, ya que esta aceptación es una señal de predisposición para controlar la violencia armada, pero el despliegue de las fuerzas encargadas de preservar la paz ocurre a costa de la soberanía interna, ya que, a menudo, limita la capacidad de las tropas del gobierno de llevar a cabo intentos de contrainsurgencia. Los estados pueden resolver este dilema aceptando una misión para preservar la paz Duursma, Allard. (2020) Pinioning the Peacekeepers: Sovereignty, Host-State Resistance against Peacekeeping Missions, and Violence against Civilians. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1093/isr/viaa063 © The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/isr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isr/viaa063/5899224 by ETH Zürich user on 18 September 2020