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Chair: Professor Mats Berdal, War Studies, King's College London
Speakers:
- Professor John Karlsrud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- Dr Kseniya Oksamytna, Research Associate, War Studies, King's College London
- Dr Sarah von Billerbeck, Associate Professor, University of Reading
United Nation Peace Operations and International Relations Theory explores how realism, liberal institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, feminist institutionalism, and complexity theory can advance our understanding of UN peace operations. You can read the introductory chapter here.
Mats Berdal will chair and present the speakers. John Karlsrud will introduce the volume on behalf of the editorial team. Kseniya Oksamytna will discuss the chapter on liberal institutionalism, focusing on UN Security Council decision-making on peacekeeping. Sarah von Billerbeck will present the chapter on sociological institutionalism, focusing on the UN peacekeeping bureaucracy and the norm of local ownership. A Q&A will follow.
Speakers’ profiles:
John Karlsrud is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has been a Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and visiting Research Fellow at the International Peace Institute. He previously served as Special Assistant to the United Nations Special Representative in Chad. He has recently published Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation (with Yf Reykers, Routledge, 2019). His latest articles are ‘Ad Hoc Coalitions and Institutional Exploitation in International Security: Towards a Typology’ (with Yf Reykers), Third World Quarterly, 2020, and ‘From Liberal Peacebuilding to Stabilization and Counterterrorism’, International Peacekeeping, 2019. His latest book is The UN at War (Palgrave, 2018).
Kseniya Oksamytna is Research Associate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her recent articles are ‘Leadership selection in United Nations Peacekeeping’ (with Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Quarterly, 2020, and ‘Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Pitfalls of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations’ (with Katharina Coleman and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Review, 2020. Her forthcoming publications are ‘Only as Fast as Its Troop Contributors: Incentives, Capabilities, and Constraints in the UN’s Peacekeeping Response’ (with Magnus Lundgren and Katharina Coleman), Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming fall 2020), and ‘Decorating the “Christmas Tree”: The UN Security Council and the Secretariat’s Recommendations on Peacekeeping Operations’ (with Magnus Lundgren), Global Governance (forthcoming spring 2021).
Sarah von Billerbeck is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations and co-Director of the UN and Global Order Programme at the University of Reading. She is the author of Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping (Oxford University Press, 2016) and has published numerous articles on the UN, peace operations, international organisations, and legitimacy. She previously served as a Political Affairs Officer for the UN peacekeeping operation in Congo (MONUC). Her latest publications are '"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall": Self-legitimation by International Organizations', International Studies Quarterly, 2020, and 'No Action Without Talk? UN Peacekeeping, Discourse, and Institutional Self-legitimation', Review of International Studies, 2020.
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