Mateja Peter

Securitisation of the EU approach to the Western Balkans: from conflict transformation to crisis management.

Dette kapittelet analyserer EUs kriserespons på Vest-Balkan gjennom linsen til EULEX. Ved å utforske hvordan de som er umiddelbart ansvarlige for mandatutførelsen og de som er direkte berørt av dets resultater oppfatter EULEX, påpeker vi fallgruvene ved politisk innblanding. Mens EULEX har blitt ansett...

UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches

FNs fredsoperasjoner trenger en ny fredsbyggende agenda som anerkjenner både konfliktdrivernes grenseoverskridende natur og den nye multipolare globale orden. En slik agenda vil innebære å forkaste den nåværende tilnærmingen til stabiliseringsoperasjoner, men også å forlate liberal fredsbygging slik...

The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: implementation and perception of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo

This contribution increases the understanding of the EU's role in post-conflict settings by exploring perceptions of EULEX by local rule of law experts. Drawing on critical peacebuilding and the decline of normative power Europe literatures, we develop an analytical framework, underlining the importance...

Peacekeeping: Resilience of an idea

This chapter examines the evolution of the idea of UN peacekeeping, asking how an instrument developed in the late 1940s managed to not only survive but also respond to the changing geopolitical and conflict landscape over the last seventy years. Through an overview of major doctrinal developments and...

Introduction. UN peace operations: Adapting to a new global order?

The introduction identifies four transformations in the global order, whose implications on the UN peace operations are studied in the remainder of the volume. These four transformations are: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional...

United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

This edited volume generates a discussion about UN approaches to peace by studying challenges and opportunities that the organisation is facing in the 21st century. We use some of the findings from the HIPPO report as an inspiration and put both its recommendations and broader UN actions in a wider context....

The EU and international actors in Kosovo: Competing institutional logics, constructive ambiguity and competing priorities

The EU's Crisis Management in the Kosovo-Serbia crises

UN support in the formation of new states: South Sudan, Kosovo, and Timor-Leste

This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The pace...

Securitisation of research: fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali

Knowledge on conflict-affected areas is becoming increasingly important for scholarship and policy. This article identifies a recent change in knowledge production regarding 'zones of danger', attributing it not only to the external environment, but also to an on-going process of securitisation...

Measuring the Success of Peace Operations: Directions in Academic Literature

This background paper examines how the academic literature has approached the question of success in peace operations. Here it should be noted that many theoretical and methodological issues have not been settled, nor does this contribution seek to resolve them. The aim here is to shed light on the issue,...

Legitimnost in relevantnost: Prihodnost mirovnih operacij Organizacije Združenih Narodov (Legitimacy and relevance: The future of the United Natio...

No exit: The decline of the international administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Between doctrine and practice: The United Nations peacekeeping dilemma