The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Natio

It is generally considered that the UN Security Council has been galvanised since the end of the Cold War. However, the existence and development of armed confl

Private military and security companies (PMSCs) have been used in every peace operation since 1990, and reliance on them is increasing at a time when peace oper

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

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectat