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Integrating ad hoc coalitions in international conflict management Open

John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers · 2025

While United Nations peacekeeping has been in decline since 2014, ad hoc coalitions have become prominent in international conflict management. We argue that these two trends have changed the field of international conflict management into…

Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more? Open

Yf Reykers, Pernille Rieker · 2024

Ad hoc forms of military cooperation have become commonplace in European security and defence. The EU has even voiced the ambition to strengthen mutual support between its CSDP operations and European-led ad hoc coalitions. We ask whether …

From EU battlegroups to Rapid Deployment Capacity: learning the right lessons? Open

Christoph O. Meyer, Ton Van Osch, Yf Reykers · 2024

The article uses the case of the development of the European Union Battlegroups to the Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) to better understand the changing learning capacity of the EU in its military Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).…

Message from the incoming editors Open

Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Nicole Jenne, Yf Reykers · 2023

What we got wrong: The war against Ukraine and security studies Open

Hylke Dijkstra, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Nicole Jenne, Yf Reykers · 2023

Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective Open

Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Yf Reykers · 2023

How do status-seeking governments in small states mobilize parliamentary support for participation in US-led warfare coalitions? We argue that the formulation of official invitations by the United States plays an overlooked instrumental ro…

Governance Through Regime Complexity: A Role for the EU in the African Security Regime Complex Open

Malte Brosig, Friedrich Plank, Yf Reykers · 2023

The international response to armed conflict in Africa often takes the form of a regime complex characterized by institutional proliferation, overlap, unclear hierarchies, and multiple interconnections. At the same time, the course of conf…

Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation Open

Yf Reykers, John Karlsrud, Malte Brosig, Stéphanie C. Hofmann, Cristiana Maglia , et al. · 2023

Ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) are an indispensable but scantly conceptualized part of global governance. In recent years, several typologies and classifications of global governance arrangements have been provided, mostly differentiating them b…

The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) Open

Yf Reykers, Johan Adriaensen · 2022

Previous research has shown that staffing of international organisations (IOs) is politics. Understaffing of IOs, by contrast, has hardly received scholarly attention. By drawing upon the principal-agent model and refining the concept of “…

War in Ukraine Open

Hylke Dijkstra, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Nicole Jenne, Yf Reykers · 2022

Enemies or allies? How NGOs can push the military towards transparency around the use of force Open

Francesca Colli, Yf Reykers · 2022

This article examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gain access to defence administrations when campaigning for transparency around the use of military force. We theorise that gaining access in this tradi…

Party politics and military deployments: explaining political consensus on Belgian military intervention Open

Tim Haesebrouck, Yf Reykers, Daan Fonck · 2021

While a comprehensive body of research provides evidence that politics does not always stop at the water’s edge, the question “when does politics stop at the water’s edge” has remained largely unanswered. This article addresses this gap in…

Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database Version 3 Open

Falk Ostermann, Cornelia Baciu, Florian Böller, Dario Čepo, Flemming Juul Christiansen , et al. · 2021

The Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database (PDVD) includes data on parliamentary votes on the deployment of armed forces. Version 3 of the dataset (V3, July 2021) contains data on 1,022 votes in plenaries and 5,540 party votes for the per…

Strengthening parliamentary oversight of defence procurement: lessons from Belgium Open

Yf Reykers · 2021

This paper asks: to what extent can a dedicated or special committee with access to classified information empower parliaments to oversee major defence procurement decisions? These decisions often involve a mixture of political, military, …

Ad hoc coalitions and institutional exploitation in international security: towards a typology Open

John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers · 2020

While the increasingly thick web of global, regional and sub-regional security arrangements and institutions has received ample scholarly attention, the phenomenon of ad hoc military coalitions and how they impact these institutions has be…

Parliamentary Deployment Vote Database Version 2 Open

Falk Ostermann, Florian Böller, Flemming Juul Christiansen, Fabrizio Coticchia, Daan Fonck , et al. · 2020

The Parliamentary Deployment Vote Database (PDVD) includes data on parliamentary votes on the deployment of armed forces. Version 2 of the dataset (V2, May 2019) contains data on 514 votes in plenaries for the period between August 1990 an…

Show them the flag: status ambitions and recognition in small state coalition warfare Open

Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Yf Reykers · 2019

Why do small states actively contribute to US- and NATO-led military operations? The small state literature has recently developed a novel explanation, referring to their dependency upon the alliance hegemon. The logic is that the small st…

No wings attached? Civil–military relations and agent intrusion in the procurement of fighter jets Open

Yf Reykers, Daan Fonck · 2019

This article studies civil–military relations in defence procurement. Applying insights from the principal–agent model, we argue that decision-making about defence procurement is inherently vulnerable to agency problems. Given the technica…

A permanent headquarters under construction? The Military Planning and Conduct Capability as a proximate principal Open

Yf Reykers · 2019

This article studies the European Union (EU) Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), which was established in June 2017 and holds the strategic command of EU non-executive missions. While this is the closest the EU has ever come t…

Conclusion Open

John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers · 2018

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the puzzling observation that despite the operational near-standstill, there have been few efforts unde…

Introduction Open

John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers · 2018

Military rapid response mechanisms are generally understood as troops that are on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame. Despite the general recognition about the added-value of military rapid responses, there…

EU Battlegroups Open

Yf Reykers · 2018

This chapter addresses the past, present, and future of the European Union (EU) Battlegroups. It outlines the origins and the main features of the Battlegroups. The chapter highlights the most pressing obstacles to deployment, illustrated …

Parliamentary involvement, party ideology and majority-opposition bargaining: Belgian participation in multinational military operations Open

Daan Fonck, Tim Haesebrouck, Yf Reykers · 2018

this article examines the impact of parliamentary involvement in troop deployment decisions on restrictions on military mandates by examining the belgian contribution to the 2011 libya intervention and the coalition against the self-procla…

Parliamentarisation as a Two-Way Process: Explaining Prior Parliamentary Consultation for Military Interventions Open

Daan Fonck, Yf Reykers · 2017

This article investigates the drivers of the parliamentarisation of war powers. Building on recent findings in the study of war deployments, we argue that the existing literature has predominantly focused on parliamentary drivers of parlia…

Multinational rapid response mechanisms: Past promises and future prospects Open

Yf Reykers, John Karlsrud · 2017

Military rapid response mechanisms are generally understood as troops that are on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame. Yet, the overall track record of the existing multinational rapid response mechanisms wi…

Belgisch parlement en militaire interventies: speler in de marge? Open

Daan Fonck, Yf Reykers · 2016

Who is controlling whom?: An Analysis of the Belgian federal parliament's executive oversight capacities towards the military interventions in Libya (2011) and Iraq (2014-2015) Open

Yf Reykers, Daan Fonck · 2015

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