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

As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel
from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions …

This dissertation argues that lower-level military leaders, commanding between a dozen and
a few hundred troops, can have a major political and strategic impact. Furthermore, it is …

Combining empirical examples from domestic counterinsurgency operations, with historical
and primary field data in longitudinal cases of peacekeeping participation by the Indian …

How does military change take place in states that are not able to develop autonomous
solutions? How does transformation occur when limited resources are available? What are …

Intelligence in defence organizations is widely seen as an under-researched topic. This
paper assesses this claim and, by means of a metareview, systematically analyses the body …

This book explores the connection between British and German officer cadets' perceptions
of the past and their motivations for enlisting in the military forces in the United Kingdom and …

Now in its third edition, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy remains the
definitive source for article-length presentations spanning the fields of public administration …

The notion of culture is one of the most useful conceptual tools for explaining regularities in
human behavior. Yet, its all-embracing nature makes it difficult to grasp. The classic …

Introduction This chapter seeks to outline the specic challenges that researchers encounter
in conict environments. While few of these are unique to research in life threatening …