▶️ New book review out in International Peacekeeping: @davidteiner.bsky.social reviews "The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA): Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire” by Arthur Boutellis

▶️ Check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1353...

🎓 The call is out for my favorite academic conference: the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025. If you like your conferences inviting, informal, theoretically and empirically diverse, and full of relevant practitioners, CRS is for you!

conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...

🌍 Challenges Annual Forum #CAF24Berlin will gather 100+ participants, to discuss #NextGeneration of #PeaceOperations Exploring how to overcome the barriers & upgrade the toolbox.

Co-hosted by @zif.bsky.social
📅3-4 Dec
🎬Follow the live stream bit.ly/3V1sNXs

Future of #Peacekeeping #Peacebuilding

An absolutely fascinating article by @davidteiner.bsky.social, who has used interviews to better understand the leadership of #UN peace operations.

Open access too!

🎉🎉🎉 Our new book 'United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism' with @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck is now available for pre-order and will be open access with Oxford University Press from February 2025 🎉🎉🎉 (1/5)

Thank you so much - I'm happy that you liked it!

Happy to see so many people are escaping Twitter and reconnecting here! I hope you find my latest article in International Peacekeeping of interest. I address how professional experiences influence the leadership practices of SRSGs as heads of UN peace operations.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's a wonderful initiative by @mybisa.bsky.social and
Shepherd - recent book authors can recommend five books that are particularly useful for understanding a certain IR topic

Here's my list of five books on the UN 🇺🇳

shepherd.com/best-books/t...

SAMIDRC🇨🇩 was deployed 15 December 2023 to support the 🇨🇩Government restore peace and security in eastern DRC. TCCs are Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania; Force Commander 🇿🇦; stated legal basis is collective self-defense.
No details on the size of the force or its composition.
www.sadc.int/latest-news/...

Despite their mission, UN peacekeepers keep being reported for sexual exploitation and abuse. Julia Radke examines how military masculinity culture in UN contexts perpetuates gender-based violence. New article on PRIF Blog ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2024/01/04/b...

🔖 New open-access article out in @WorldDevJournal on why some armed groups restrain violent communal conflict in areas under their control while others do not ⤵️

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s a bumper, special issue with 29 individual elements across five sections spanning 600+ pages – in our introduction, James Worrall and I (Alex Waterman) outline our thought processes behind putting the issue together, reflect on its development and celebrate editorial teams past and present

The wonderful editors of @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
have composed an incredible special issue at the occasion of their 25th birthday. @reginesonja.bsky.social and I are proud to be a part of this remarkable collection of articles with a re-examination of the state/non-state binary

@hilarymatfess.bsky.social reviews how our understanding of rebel socialisation has evolved over time, expanding on calls for greater attention to “love and care” in security studies and laying out an agenda for examining care and marriage in rebel groups www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Earlier this year, I asked Prof. Martha Finnemore why norms matter for international security. She was kind enough to record a very informative 10 mins video on the topic that I use in one of my online classes. 📺👇
youtu.be/PU28kb40oHM?...

My article on UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries has now been included in the most recent issue of JISB

Free download link here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RUTFB...
#CivMilSky #Polisky

How is sexual violence – particularly when men are victims – theorized in global politics?
 
In this article from 2021, @ProfMarysiaZed untangles the complexities of feminist thought at the intersection of gender, sex, and violence.
 
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, is now out (open access):

"Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...