Books in the Cass Series on Peacekeeping series

This book presents a critical analysis of the liberal peace project and offers possible alternatives and models.

This book examines what makes accountability for previous abuses more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve.

This book offers the first detailed examination of the effectiveness of the peacekeeping operations of the African Union.

This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention, and peace operation practices and experiences in Francophone spaces.

Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, this book explores the foundations of the political ethics of Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, examining how they influenced his actions in several crisis situations.

This study examines whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and Post-Cold War periods, focusing on contrasting case studies of the Congo, Cyprus, Somalia, Angola, Sierra Leone and East Timor.

This volume brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to develop a framework for thinking about character and impact of corruption in peacebuilding environments, and examines them in the context of different case studies.

The main theme of this collection of essays is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system.

Looks at UN Peace Operations in Haiti and why they went so dramatically wrong first time around, resulting in much deep-seated conflict, in order that these lessons can be taken into account in future operations elsewhere.

Examines the relationship between international peace operations and organised crime - which in some cases are clear enemies, and in others, tacit allies. This book questions the emerging orthodoxy that portrays organized crime as an external threat to the liberal peace offered by the international community, delivered through peace operations.

Provides an examination of Nordic approaches to peace operations after the Cold War. This work shows how the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) remain relevant for the study and practice of post-Cold War peace operations. It is for students of peacekeeping, peace studies, security studies, and IR in general.

Examines justice reform and statebuilding in Afghanistan, following the 2001 US intervention.

Explores the consequences of September 11 2001 and questions the effect this has had on future international peace operations.

This book focuses on explaining peacekeeping commitment decisions at the nation-state level, flling a gap in the peacekeeping scholarly literature on the political dynamics of peacekeeping decisions.

A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11.

The main theme of this collection of essays is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system.

Conflict resolution theory has become relevant to the various challenges faced by the United Nations peacekeeping forces as efforts are made to learn from the traumatic and devastating impact of the many civil wars that have erupted in the 1990s.

A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11.

The Dayton Peace Agreement was signed in November 1995, but the legacy of the Bosnian war shapes the various aspects of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This book attempts to answer questions, such as: what has changed in the years since Dayton? Is international regulation helping to establish peace in Bosnia?

An investigation of the role of the modern soldier/diplomat and the nature of military negotiation in comparison with negotiation in other contexts.