Cass Series on Peacekeeping
About the Book Series
This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.
Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians: From Moral Imperative to Effective Practice
1st Edition
By Timothy Donais
June 30, 2025
This book critically examines the evolution of protection practices in UN peace operations over the past two decades. Protecting civilians has become central to the work of contemporary UN peace operations, yet the ability of peacekeepers to offer meaningful levels of protection to vulnerable ...
Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping: Fact or Fiction?
1st Edition
By Sally Anne Corcoran
April 23, 2024
This book investigates to what extent UNSCR 1325/WPS agenda has functioned in practice, to advance women’s equality and empowerment in the peacekeeping context and beyond. The book examines whether widespread implementation of UNSCR 1325 and the broader WPS agenda via gender mainstreaming in UN ...
Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions
1st Edition
By Sarah-Myriam Martin- Brûlé
January 24, 2018
This book offers a new perspective on peace missions in intra-state wars, based on comparative field research. In theoretical terms, this book proposes a new definition of peace operation success based on two crucial elements: the (re)establishment of order and the accomplishment of the mandate. ...
Peacekeeping and the African Union: Building Negative Peace
1st Edition
By Jude Cocodia
September 28, 2017
This book offers a detailed examination of the effectiveness of the peacekeeping operations of the African Union. Despite its growing reputation in peacekeeping and its status as the oldest continental peacekeeper, the performance of the African Union (AU) has hitherto not been assessed. This book ...
Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa: Exploring Regime Complexity
1st Edition
By Malte Brosig
June 30, 2017
This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex....
Statebuilding and Justice Reform: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Matteo Tondini
October 03, 2013
The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders, highlighting some provisional results, together ...
Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies?
1st Edition
Edited
By James Cockayne, Adam Lupel
July 08, 2013
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies. The threat posed by organized crime to ...
Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace?
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominik Zaum, Christine Cheng
June 21, 2013
This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding. The problem of corruption has become increasingly important in war to peace transitions, eroding confidence in new democratic institutions, undermining economic development, diverting scarce public ...
South America and Peace Operations: Coming of Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Kai Michael Kenkel
May 10, 2013
This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations. The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently with regard to its attitudes towards participation in peace operations. Leaving behind a strong ...
Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
April 20, 2011
This book presents a critical analysis of the liberal peace project and offers possible alternatives and models. In the past decade, the model used for reconstructing societies after conflicts has been based on liberal assumptions about the pacifiying effects of 'open markets' and 'open societies'....
Political Ethics and The United Nations: Dag Hammarskjöld as Secretary-General
1st Edition
By Manuel Froehlich
July 21, 2010
Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, and including previously unpublished material, this book explores the foundations of the political ethics of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, examining how they influenced his actions in several key crisis ...
Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations: A New Model in the Making
1st Edition
By Peter Viggo Jakobsen
June 29, 2009
A new examination of Nordic approaches to peace operations after the Cold War. It shows how the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) remain relevant for the study and practice of post-Cold War peace operations. This unique study is structured around eleven success ...