Conflict, security, and peacekeeping

Key Publications: 

• "Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping" - 2022
• “Historical Ownership and Territorial Disputes”, Journal of Politics, 2020
• “China’s Evolving Motivations and Goals in UN Peacekeeping Participation”, International Journal, 2018
• “U.S. Military Aid and Recipient Country Cooperation”, Foreign Policy Analysis, 2011

See Xiaojun Li's full profile here   

Current projects: “Let our ballots secure what our bullets have won:” Union Veterans and Voting for Radical Reconstruction

See Michael Weaver's full profile here. 

 Key Publications: 

• "Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping" - 2022
• “Downsizing in UN Peacekeeping: The Impact on Civilian Peacekeepers and the Missions Employing Them” International Peacekeeping, 2020
• “Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Potential Perils of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations” International Studies Review, 2020
• “Peacekeeping for Profit? The Scope and Limitations of ‘Mercenary’ UN Peacekeeping” Journal of Peace Research, 2018

Current projects: Local Staff in UN Peace Operations

See Katharina Coleman's full profile here. 

Current projects: Darts and Letters: Podcasting for Intellectual Knowledge Mobilization in the 21st Century

See Allen Sens' full profile here. 

Key publications:

• “Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism” International Studies Quarterly, 2013.
• A conceptual unpacking of ‘hybridity’: Accounting for notions of power, politics & progress in analyses of aid driven interfaces” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2013
• 'Resisting Securitized and Militarized Understandings of Protection: Aesthetics as Counterpower' International Politics, 2018'

Not currently teaching a graduate seminar; please contact if interested in Directed Studies

See Jenny Peterson's full profile here.