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Importance of regional orga for geopolitical considerations (what are these interests? possibly maintaining regional stability?)

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Question: With regards to the Paris reading, how is geopolitical competition different from traditional territoriality?

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Possibility of quick action vs. stronger geopolitical interests

Question of impartiality

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Long decision making process (chain of commands; bureaucracy) delays quick responses to the conflict, and regional organization should be able to provide more timeliness responses to the conflict happening in the region.

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There was a resounding agreement that there is a strong focus on US and Russia that is accompanied with the term 'geopolitics'. It often boils down to:
-Lack of a standard definition of the term
-Prevalence of the idea in available literature
-Ideological Influences

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Group 2: Collaboration with regional organization could help to grasp complexity of the local context on the expertise level but not on the level of mediation. 

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Group 2: Collaboration with regional organization could help to grasp complexity of the local context on the expertise level but not on the level of mediation. 

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A lot of mainstream analysis presents the following analysis: when there are geopolitical interests/competition there is no intervention VS. when there are no (strong) geopolitical interests/competition there is intervention --> BUT there are a lot of counterexamples to this and it really doesn't explain what happens in the case of no strong geopolitics

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mediation and PKO are tools for resolving conflicts and, as such, mechanisms of the existing security governance under the UN system
WBG's Pathways to Peace argue that traditional tools for diplomacy are not applicable to the new settings.
Mediation requires timeliness/ripeness. States felt compelled to start using mediation as a cost-saving method (rather than sending in more troops), but if the situation is not 'ripe' for mediation, (no peace to keep) you need a stronger military force anyway to enforce a mediation that is not ready.

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If we understand the Trump admin as a divergence from the status quo, we will probably see a return to the status quo positions of the US. The Trump admin was a lot about the promotion of either personal interests or really US-centric/domestic narratives. Trump admin did not opposed Russia a lot. Return to the liberal peace discourse by Biden admin. Some trends at the level of the international system (move from unipolarity to multipolarity) will not be reversed by Biden admin because are tied to factors more macro than one US presidential election.