Peacekeeping operations

In 2011, South Sudan was welcomed into the United Nations as the world's newest nation.

The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women's militarism since antiquity.

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars.

For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace.

The complexity of the twenty-first century threat landscape contrasts markedly with the bilateral nuclear bargaining context envisioned by classical deterrence theory.

An in-depth 2007 analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.

We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "e;failed"e;, in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II.

In 2011, South Sudan was welcomed into the United Nations as the world's newest nation.

A unique insight into the changing role and structure of the United Nations.

This volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France.

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802.

For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination.

Develops a coherent and realistic legal framework which strengthens the human rights protection and the accountability mechanisms in peace operations.

The Long Search for Peace recounts Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982 and follows them to 2006.

Introduces conflict and peace economics, outlines its history of thought, contemporary theory and evidence, and maps trajectories for further research.

Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence.

Going to War?

A comprehensive and timely analysis of the prospects for peace and justice in Colombia.

As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals.

This book sets out the legal issues surrounding privatized peacekeepers, and asks the essential questions for the debate going forward.

An original theory and set of essays on negotiating transitional justice, drawing on the authors'' first-hand experience of Colombia''s peace talks.

How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations.

Military organizations are cultures, and such cultures have ingrained preferences and predilections for how and when to employ force.

Introduces the Everyday Peace Indicators as a measurement, diagnostic and evaluation tool and makes an argument for its utility in conflict affected contexts.

We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "e;failed"e;, in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II.

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict.

There is a long history of state governments providing support to nonstate armed groups fighting battles in other countries.

The imperatives of sovereignty, human rights and national security very often pull in different directions, yet the relations between these three different notions are considerably more subtle than those of simple opposition.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

A comprehensive and timely analysis of the prospects for peace and justice in Colombia.

The third volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland.

Explores the use of armed force in occupied territory under different international law branches.

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history.

In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died.

This book explores the post-national defense and its gender implications.

Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence.

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace.

As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them.