Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world
peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding …

In the past two decades, regional organizations and coalitions of states have deployed more
peace operations than the UN. Yet most quantitative studies of peacekeeping effectiveness …

International peacekeeping in Africa has developed dynamically in the last decade. The
majority of global missions are deployed to the continent, the largest regional contingent of …

UN blue helmets increasingly deploy in partnership with regional organizations and
coalitions of states. While this development is hailed as a way out of geopolitical …

Peacekeeping today has become ever more complex reaching deep into conflict affected
societies aiming to facilitate social, economic and political transformative processes in order …

This Element addresses questions of division of labor and concentration of authority among
intergovernmental organizations by examining multilevel governance in the Global South. It …

Despite the relevance of inter-organizationally managed peace operations, research on
their effectiveness is still limited. This study analyses the effectiveness of one inter …

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their
deployment. However, despite their popularity within the international community as a tool …

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings and inequities in the global health
system were amplified. International actors lost faith in the major global health institutions …

The practice of peacekeeping is strongly associated with the United Nations, and mention of
peacekeeping usually conjures up images of blue helmets, the hallmark of UN personnel on …