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The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security Open
The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace, and Security examines the significant and evolving international Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, which scholars and practitioners have together contributed to advancing over almost two decades.…
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The UN at war: examining the consequences of peace-enforcement mandates for the UN peacekeeping operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali Open
The UN peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali were in 2013 given peace enforcement mandates, ordering them to use all necessary measures to ‘neutralise’ and ‘disarm’ ident…
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Making war safe for women? National Action Plans and the militarisation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda Open
Cora Weiss, co-drafter of what became UN Security Council Resolution 1325, noted in 2011 that the purpose of eliminating conflict-related sexualised violence must not be to ‘make war safe for women’. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and…
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Queering women, peace and security Open
Journal Article Queering women, peace and security Get access JAMIE J. HAGEN JAMIE J. HAGEN 1Independent journalist and doctoral student of global governance and human security at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a focus on gen…
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Women, Peace and Security: Exploring the implementation and integration of UNSCR 1325 Open
This special issue brings together articles that examine how the localisation and implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda occurs in policy and practice. In this introduction, we examine the increasing importance of the Women…
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Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset Open
Research on UN peacekeeping operations has established that operations' size and composition affect peacekeeping success. However, we lack systematic data for evaluating whether variation in tasks assigned to UN peacekeeping mandates matte…
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Reintroducing women, peace and security Open
This special issue of International Affairs, launched on International Women's Day 2016, explores the potential and limits of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, a global policy architecture supporting gender equality and today a signifi…
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The ‘Unwilling or Unable’ Test: Has it Been, and Could it be, Accepted? Open
On 23 September 2014, the United States of America sent a letter to the Security Council justifying the launch of an air campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Syrian territory. In this letter, the US referred …
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Peace enforcement in Africa: Doctrinal distinctions between the African Union and United Nations Open
When the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to authorize a peace enforcement operation in Africa, its partner of choice is the African Union (AU). Africa has developed significant peace operations capacity over the past decade. In …
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Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism after Kosovo Open
Kosovo and the United Nations Charter The Effect of State Custom and Practice on the Charter State Practice: The Charter and Interstate Violence Security Council Practice: The Charter and Intrastate Violence More 'Deniers,' New Scepticism …
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Gender as national interest at the UN Security Council Open
The United Nations Security Council has often been identified as a key actor responsible for the uneven trajectory of the international Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. It is, however, the Council members—who also seek to advance th…
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‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform Open
This paper provides an in-depth reconstruction of the (failed) reform of the EU’sCommon European Asylum System. Even though this was essentially a legislativeprocess, it was characterized by extensive European Council involvement. In fact,…
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Resonating, Rejecting, Reinterpreting: Mapping the Stabilization Discourse in the United Nations Security Council, 2000–14 Open
This article charts the evolution of the conceptualisation of stabilization in the UN Security Council (UNSC) during the period 2001–2014. UNSC open meetings provide an important dataset for a critical review of stabilization discourse and…
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The Impact of the Libya Intervention Debates on Norms of Protection Open
Resolution 1973, which authorised military intervention in Libya, marked the first time that the United Nations Security Council explicitly mandated the use of force against a functioning state to prevent imminent atrocity crimes. While so…
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R2P in the UN Security Council: Darfur, Libya and beyond Open
It has been argued that consensus on the responsibility to protect (R2P) was lost in the United Nations Security Council as a result of the NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011. This argument assumes that there was more agreement on R2P …
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid Open
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations …
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Jordan and the Rise and Fall of the Arab Cooperation Council Open
This article examines Jordan's role in the creation of the Arab Cooperation Council (ACC), from its origins to its sudden demise in the turmoil of the 1990-91 Gulf crisis and war. The analysis focuses on three key factors in Jordan's forei…
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The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda at the United Nations Open
The UN’s ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda is founded on Security Council Resolution 1325, which was passed by the Council in 2000 after a period of sustained advocacy by women’s civil society organisations. The agenda is convention…
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Decorating the “Christmas Tree” Open
Contemporary peacekeeping operations carry out many disparate tasks, which has triggered a debate about “Christmas Tree mandates.” Did the UN Secretariat or the UN Security Council drive this expansion? Using original data on nineteen UN p…
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Climatizing the UN Security Council Open
Since 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has debated the security implications of climate change on several occasions. This article addresses these debates by exploring two interrelated questions: What drives the continuous e…
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Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes Open
A large literature has demonstrated that international action can promote the resolution of civil wars. However, international actors do not wait until violence starts to seek to manage conflicts. This article considers the ways in which t…
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SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE: DIFFICULT DECISIONS IN TROUBLED TIMES Open
The effectiveness and legitimacy of the Council of Europe can be undermined by the actions of Member States which fail to comply with their international law obligations of genuine cooperation with the organization. This article first brie…
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For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism Open
The usual suspects of middle power internationalism—small and middle powers such as Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden—have all contributed to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This article argues that while …
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Why is change so slow? Assessing prospects for United Nations Security Council reform Open
The article explores how changed patterns of UN membership affected the prospects for UN Security Council institutional reform. First, we outline a theoretical framework based on path dependency, veto player analysis and social choice theo…
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Intra-Gulf Cooperation Council : Saudi Arabia Effect Open
The main thrust of this study is to investigate the extent to which Saudi Arabia's economic growth acts as an engine of growth for the Gulf Co-operation Council region.The estimation results of Gulf Cooperation Council for the last three d…
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United States Withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council, Shortly After Receiving Criticism About Its Border Policy Open
On June 19, 2018, the United States withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council. Announcing this decision, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley characterized the Council as “a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of …
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Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict Open
What explains why the United Nations Security Council meets and deliberates on some armed conflicts but not others? We advance a theoretical argument centred on the role of conflict externalities, state interests and interest heterogeneity…
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CEDAW AND THE SECURITY COUNCIL: ENHANCING WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN CONFLICT Open
The proliferation of legal and normative standards regulating women's rights in conflict has been accompanied by concerns about their efficacy. The article examines the activities of the CEDAW Committee and the UN Security Council and cons…
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Elected member influence in the United Nations Security Council Open
This article reassesses how members of the UN Security Council exercise influence over the Council’s decision-making process, with particular focus on the ten elected members (the E10). A common understanding of Security Council dynamics a…
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Beyond the Veto Open
The formal rules governing the UN Security Council offer little insight into how negotiations are conducted on a day-to-day basis. While it is generally assumed that permanent members dominate negotiations, this article investigates avenue…