United Nations peacekeeping is at a crossroads. Under threat, over-extended and beset by scandal, perhaps is it's no surprise the Trump Administration made the U.N. peacekeeping budget an early target of funding cuts.

This week on Wake we'll ask if reforms can modernize peacekeeping and whether peacekeeping advances or sets back American interests. 

Heling us answer those questions are:

• Ambassador James Dobbins, senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Norrie MacQueen, honorary research fellow at the University of St. Andrews.

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Recorded January 30, 2018. 

Hosted by Luke Vargas.