Books and Edited Volumes
- UN 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.
- 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
- 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 (forthcoming, 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)
Policy and Public Engagement
- Russia’s Status as a Colonial Power, E-IR (2024)
- Can Racial Hierarchies in UN Peacekeeping Be Dismantled? (with Sarah von Billerbeck), Global Dialogue (2024)
- Russia, NATO, and International Organizations, The Global Observatory, International Peace Institute (2022)
- Ukraine: Russian Attitudes to Ukrainians Can Help to Explain the Atrocities, The Conversation (2022)
- Change by Chance? How International Norms Travel Between the United Nations and the African Union (with Nina Wilén), Connecting Ideas, UN University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (2022)
- Are UN Peacekeeping Leaders Held to Account? (with Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren), Political Violence at a Glance (2022)
- Peacekeeping Bosses Should Be Chosen by the UN and Not the Paymasters (with Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren), PassBlue (2020)
- 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)