This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems'
literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the …

Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into
it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a …

Cultivating cooperation with local populations is necessary for peacekeeping operations to
effectively prevent and reduce violence. To accomplish their missions in complex foreign …

Security matters. It is impossible to make sense of world politics without reference to it. Every
day, people somewhere in the world are killed, starved, tortured, raped, impoverished …

Media coverage of civil wars often focuses on the most gruesome atrocities and the most
extreme conflicts, which might lead one to think that all civil wars involve massive violence …

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

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody
continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them …

At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of
Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a responsibility to protect their …

The UN peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali were in 2013 given peace enforcement mandates …

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should
undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian …