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 …

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides
constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to …

ABSTRACT When the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to authorize a peace
enforcement operation in Africa, its partner of choice is the African Union (AU). Africa has …

As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we
conceptualise this turn as 'pragmatic'and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this …

This article contends that Ad-hoc Security Initiatives (ASI) have developed over the last
decade in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin and represents a new form of African collective …

Peace operations are a highly resilient international institution for managing armed conflict.
Their resilience derives from what constructivists in International Relations theory call …

While the increasingly thick web of global, regional and sub-regional security arrangements
and institutions has received ample scholarly attention, the phenomenon of ad hoc military …

In December 2015, the African Union (AU) took the unprecedented step of threatening to
use military force against the government of Burundi's wishes in order to protect civilians …

This contribution analyses EU approach to stabilisation. Looking at the cases of Libya and
Mali, the focus on emerging communities of stabilisation practices helps illustrate how EU …

Over the past decade and a half, Africa has developed a significant peace operations
capacity. This is reflected in the number of peacekeepers African countries contribute to …