Numerous empirical studies have examined the role of third-party peacekeeping in reducing
violence around the world. Their results reveal an extraordinary relationship between …

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

Many peace support operations have faced allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse
perpetrated by UN personnel against members of local communities. Some of these intimate …

We all have images of soldiering seared into our memories. Perhaps we visualize troops
firing at each other from World War I (WWI) trenches, allied forces storming the beaches of …

1 Children born of war: an introduction 1 2 Children born of war: who are they? Experiences
of children, mothers, families and post-conflict communities 21 3 Children born of war during …

How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities,
terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How does international burden …

This paper analyses the relationship between national security policymaking and the
defence sector. The goal is to understand how a lack of attention to national security …

Why do countries contribute troops to UN peacekeeping? Recognizing the incentives to free
ride on the contributions of other countries, existing explanations have tended to focus on …

I advance and test a theoretical argument of how participation in UN peacekeeping affects
the likelihood of coup attempts in troop-contributing countries (TCCs). The argument …

This article provides a heuristic study of three cases where participation in peacekeeping
operations prompted military rule in the peacekeeper-contributing state. These three atypical …