BRICS: A New Actor in Global Security

... nations who make the rules.”. In 2011 , UN peacekeeping operations were staffed by 2,239 Brazilian military experts and police, 2,185 of them in Haiti, and 51 in other missions including Western Sahara (MINURSO), Liberia (UNMIL), and Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI). South Africa is the continent's key participant in UN and African Union peacekeeping missions. Africans seem more willing to receive peacekeepers from fellow-Africans rather than from non-African states. Although the West remains the key peacekeeping ...