Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition
in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the …

Qualitative scholars exhibit a wide range of views on and approaches to causality. While
some approaches reject causality from the outset, a large strand of qualitative research in …

A considerable amount of research within security studies has explored the military's
increasingly diverse and multifaceted tasks. However, this debate has been disconnected …

Academic research on civil-military relations often assumes that dangers for democracy and
civilian control mainly emanate from the military's predisposition of 'pushing'its way into …

Since the adoption of UNSCR 1820 in 2008, United Nations peacekeeping operations have
come under increased pressure to prevent conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) …

Peacekeeping helps to prevent conflict and to protect civilians. But how does it work to
achieve those aims? Notwithstanding a growing recognition that peacekeeping mandates …

ABSTRACT Security Force Assistance (SFA) is presented as a panacea for security threats
and governance problems in the Global South. Using Mali as a point of departure, in this …

This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University
Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for …

Legislatures vary widely in how they affect democratic civil–military relations. In some
countries, legislative oversight plays a critical role in guiding their defense establishment. In …

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among
them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The …