Emerging powers and peace operations: An agenda for research

His books on the subject include: The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press, 2006);

1 This background paper highlights some of the challenges related to assessing the performance of international peace operations and gives a presentation of recent United

2 However, despite an often congruent comprehension of overall goals, scholarly and practitioner analyses of success in peace operations tend to differ on two counts..

However, the new reality is one of a global network of peace and security actors, and African Union (AU) missions will be deployed alongside various sub-regional, UN and EU

Until now, it has been special political missions and UN development presences that have been the main targets for these attacks, but with the deployment of MINUSMA to Mali a

Until the end of the Cold War, UN peacekeeping was the primary venue for small and medium powers when contributing troops to international peace oper- ations, and contributions to

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000) was hailed as a pioneer- ing step in acknowledging the varied roles of women in conflict

A second argument for increasing the number of female peacekeepers deployed is that this results in greater attention being given to gender equality in the mission itself