Paper short abstract:

With personnel from 100 nations serving on peacekeeping missions, adherents of Political Realism and Critical Security Theory will come together from different psychological backgrounds and perspectives.

Paper long abstract:

When individuals from the western and non-western nations, the nations of the global north and the global south, the developed and developing nations meet at the United Nations or on UN peacekeeping missions, different psychological perspectives are brought to the table. Many from the developed western nations and the nations of the global north will bring with them an implicit or explicit adherence to the tenets of Political Realism, while others may be more open to the tenets of Critical Security Theory. This paper will examine at a practical level how these different perspectives come together either at the political level or on a peacekeeping mission, and what happens when they do.