Publications

• Race and International Organizations (with Sarah von Billerbeck), International Studies Quarterly (2024)

• 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)

• Global Dialogues During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Journal of International Relations and Development (2023)

• Imperialism, Supremacy, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Contemporary Security Policy (2023)

+ This is an elaboration of the argument I presented in The Conversation (2022): Ukraine: Russian Attitudes to Ukrainians Can Help to Explain the Atrocities

• Contribution to the Forum “UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects“, International Peacekeeping (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)

+ We’ve written about this research for Connecting Ideas by the UN University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS): Change by Chance? How International Norms Travel Between the United Nations and the African Union

• 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)

+ We’ve written about this research for Political Violence at a Glance: Are UN Peacekeeping Leaders Held to Account?

• 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)

+ We’ve written about this research for PassBlue: Peacekeeping Bosses Should Be Chosen by the UN and Not the Paymasters

• 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)

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)

Policy

• Responsible Management and Use of Data in UN Peace Operations, International Peace Institute (2023)

• Russia, NATO, and International Organizations, The Global Observatory, International Peace Institute (2022)

• Eine Leistungskultur in der UN-Friedenssicherung (The Politics of Peacekeeping Performance), Vereinte Nationen: German Review on the United Nations (2022) + English version

• Peacekeeping Country Profile: Ukraine, Providing for Peacekeeping, International Peace Institute (2016)

• The European Union Training Mission in Somalia: Lessons Learnt for EU Security Sector Reform, Istituto Affari Internazionali (2011)