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Cass Series on Peacekeeping

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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.

23 Series Titles


Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians From Moral Imperative to Effective Practice

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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