"In this book Beatrice Pouligny argues that much of what is being rebuilt in societies emerging from war - or in some cases what in continuing to be destroyed - often lies in the 'ordinary' daily lives of both local populations and the staff of UN missions. these on-the-ground r…
Diese systematische Gesamtdarstellung des Völkerrechts wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende und Referendare. Ihnen wollen die Autorinnen und Autoren ein Hilfsmittel für Studium und Prüfung geben, das mehr ist als eine Einführung oder ein Kurzlehrbuch. Die 8. Auflage des Le…
The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angol…
"Boulden argues that, while problematic, peace enforcement is a potentially viable tool for the United Nations. The implementation of peace enforcement operations does, however, present the United Nations with a number of complicated challenges. Three factors have the power to i…
New approaches to third-party conflict resolution stress the significance of the interconnectionsbetween the interventions of various external actors. Recent empirical and policy-onented work oncivil wars underscores the recurrent policy challenges such external actors face in p…
Global demand for peacekeeping is growing, especially in Africa. The United Nations has traditionally been at the forefront of developing peacekeeping theory and practice, and remains the primary operational agency for peacekeeping in Africa. But increasing emphasis is being pla…
The purpose of this research project is to examine the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary analysis of where further manifestations exis…
'Providing Peacekeepers' analyses the factors which encourage (or discourage) states from contributing their soldiers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It focuses on the UN's experiences during the 21st century and does so through 4 thematic and 16 case study c…
Despite widespread depiction of civil war as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, the empirical record shows significant variation in post-civil war states’ regime trajectories. While some states settled into durable authoritarianism, others went on to enter the ranks of ele…
This dissertation develops the concept of an International Security Cooperation Market. The currency of this market is the side-deal. These deals, also known as issue-linkages or side-payments, are systematically negotiated between Lead Nations - nations for which the execution …
By virtue of their presence, observers alter what they are observing. Yet, the international soldiers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) did much more than observe events. From August 1949 until the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force in…
Since the end of the Cold War, violent ethnic conflict has coincided with an increase in the number of failed or collapsed states and the emergence of more muscular and intrusive forms of external intervention by the United Nations. This dissertation explores the relationship be…
The peace agreements ending the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia partitioned the territory between the warring parties. It also made Bosnia an international protectorate, creating a complex government structure involving myriad interactions between different levels of domestic government…
This study focused on Parliamentary oversight of international peacekeeping operations where Canadian Forces (CF) were represented in the 1990s. An examination of the activities of parliament in relation to defence matters from Confederation to the effective end of the Cold War …
Relief agents and armies at war view humanitarian aid very differently. For providers of assistance, donations are seen as life-sustaining relief for civilians. For fighting factions, however, basic necessities such as food, water and milk may be seen as aid and comfort to the e…
In response to the growing number of intra-state conflicts, caused by ethnic and religious divisions, post-conflict peacebuilding missions have been deployed on an increasing scale around the globe. In an effort to rebuild troubled or failed states, international and inter-gover…
In an increasingly globalized world, threats originating from outside the North Atlantic/European area affect the security of the transatlantic alliance, forcing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop capabilities to combat a multiplicity of global threats. Thi…
