Peacekeeping Operations

The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of no war, no peace among major powers, resulting in a sta...

Drawing from a diverse range of military, policing, academic and policymakers experiences, this book seeks to provide solutions of how national mil...

This book integrates peace operations into the paradigm first articulated in Uncomfortable Wars, edited by Max Manwaring. It not only addresses soc...

Armed groups are intrinsic to conflict. Pursuing myriad aims, they shape and are shaped by the conflict landscape. UN missions too inhabit this lan...

The first international peace operation by the United Nations took place in 1948. Seventy-five years later, more than one hundred multilateral miss...

Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda...

From the perspective of conflict theory, this book offers a comprehensive, multi-causal, and multi-level analysis of the Nubian issue in Egypt. Uti...

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of internat...

This book explores how to establish peace in societies recovering from large-scale, armed conflicts by introducing the sustaining peace scale as a ...

This book examines the emergent conviction that UN robust peacekeeping works better than UN traditional peacekeeping in reducing civilian killings ...

This broad-ranging book examines the creation, through the arts and culture, of societies that enjoy sustainable, positive peace. It begins with a ...

What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition...

This illuminating study describes the genesis of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention. It is the first comprehensive analysis of ...

This publication examines the key role of parliamentary diplomacy in foreign affairs, focusing specifically on its influence in the field of disarm...

Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed ...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. N...

This volume provides a holistic overview of the long peace process in Nepal following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 200...

This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute t...

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history. A racist regime built upon a foundation of ...

In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Ar...

Eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era describe their service and its influence on their lives. Their service is shaped by th...

In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regiona...

Peacekeeping. Despite efforts to relegate it to the past, what was once a central pillar in Canadas national identity has been making a comeback in...

This two-volume encyclopedia brings together leading scholars to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on foreign policy analysis ...

Only 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the Western-dominated global order is fading and our hopes that liberal democracy would spread and bri...

Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of ...

A unique assessment that challenges humanity's quest to abolish warfare. The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdo...

Josef Korbel, whose career encompasses both scholarly and diplomatic roles, presents a crisp, up-to-date survey of postwar relations between East a...