- I am the recipient of 2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation by the School of Policy and Global Affairs at City St George’s, University of London
Books and Edited Volumes
- United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism (with Oisín Tansey, Sarah von Billerbeck, and Birte Gippert, Oxford University Press, 2025)
+ This is the outcome of ESRC-funded project ‘Democratization and UN Peacebuilding’. You can read a summary of the book on “Multilateralism in Action” by Columbia SIPA. It has been reviewed in International Peacekeeping and the German Review on the United Nations.
- Advocacy and Change in International Organizations: Protection, Communication, and Reconstruction in UN Peacekeeping (Oxford University Press, 2023) – winner of 2024 Chadwick F. Alger Prize by the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association + Special Mention for the 2024 Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Book Award
- UN Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (co-edited with John Karlsrud, Manchester University Press, 2020, paperback edition 2023)
+ The volume has been reviewed in International Peacekeeping and International Affairs. It has been selected as one of Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 by Choice and one of Top 5 books of the September 2021 issue of International Affairs
Articles
- Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Missions, International Studies Quarterly (2025, with Katharina Coleman, Joshua Fawcett Weiner, and Jessica Di Salvatore)
- Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset, International Studies Quarterly (2025, with Katharina Coleman and Jessica Di Salvatore)
- Race and International Organizations (with Sarah von Billerbeck), International Studies Quarterly (2024) – Honourable Mention for 2025 Best Article Award by the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association
- Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations (with Oisín Tansey, Sarah von Billerbeck, and Birte Gippert), International Studies Quarterly (2023)
- Imperialism, Supremacy, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Contemporary Security Policy (2023)
- Adoption, Adaptation or Chance? Inter-Organisational Diffusion of the Protection of Civilians Norm from the UN to the African Union (with Nina Wilén), Third World Quarterly (2022)
- Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset (with Jessica Di Salvatore, Magnus Lundgren, and Hannah Smidt), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2022) + Codebook + website
- Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping (with Magnus Lundgren and Vincenzo Bove), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2022)
- Decorating the “Christmas Tree”: The UN Security Council and the Secretariat’s Recommendations on Peacekeeping Operations (with Magnus Lundgren), Global Governance (2021)
- Leadership Selection in United Nations Peacekeeping (with Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Quarterly (2021)
- Only as Fast as Its Troop Contributors: Incentives, Capabilities, and Constraints in the UN’s Peacekeeping Response (with Magnus Lundgren and Katharina P. Coleman), Journal of Peace Research (2021)
- Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Pitfalls of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations (with Katharina P. Coleman and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Review (2021)
- Policy Entrepreneurship by International Bureaucracies: The Evolution of Public Information in UN Peacekeeping, International Peacekeeping (2018) (accepted version)
- European Union Training Mission in Somalia and the Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: Can EUTM Contribute to Sustainable and Inclusive Peace?, International Spectator (2011) (accepted version)
Book Chapters
- Creating Datasets of Officials in International Organisations (in Introduction to International Organization Research Methods, edited by Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber, and Lucile Maertens, 2023)
- Public Information and Strategic Communications in Peace Operations (in Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations, edited by Han Dorussen, 2022)
- Liberal Institutionalism (with Carla Monteleone), in United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (edited by Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud, Manchester University Press, 2020)
- Civil Society and the UN Security Council: Advocacy on the Rwandan Genocide, in Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs (edited by Raffaele Marchetti, Palgrave, 2016) (accepted version)
Commentaries and Forum Contributions
- The Moral and Strategic Clarity of Supporting Ukraine’s Self-defense: Why Accepting Russian Colonialism Should Remain a Taboo, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2024)
- UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects, International Peacekeeping (2023)
- Global Dialogues During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Journal of International Relations and Development (2023)