Peacekeeping Operations

Explores the complexities of evaluating peace operation outcomes, providing an original, detailed framework for assessment. The authors address bot...

Private military and security companies (PMSCs) have been used in every peace operation since 1990, and reliance on them is increasing at a time wh...

Furthering the understanding of the legitimate authority in internationally-led peace-and state-building interventionsThis study focuses on underst...

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...

In light of the present deployments of international troops to Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, there is an urgency to respectfully address t...

This book is about the games that Great Powers play. Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era have been in Africa, and ...

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in ...

In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Médecins Sans Frontières, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's humanitarian' interventions are...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.S. involved in the war to save his country from German invasi...

The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary of those areas of international law mo...

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstr...

The early 1990s saw Europe's first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle ...

To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tell...

In Humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civilians in conflict zones a...

In May of 1945, the American army, along with those of its Allies, occupied the cities and towns of Hitlers Third Reich. While most American soldie...

Peace Corps volunteers experience adventure and challenge every day as they serve in communities around the world. They leave a legacy and a better...

What is the peacekeeper's role in the 21st century? Peacekeeping, peace enforcement and 'stability operations' ask soldiers to use violence to crea...

Grounded in psychology, political science and education, this book presents Berne''''s Transactional Analysis model used as a novel conceptual fram...