In February 2011, after five years of NATO powers rotating at the helm of UNIFIL's Maritime
Task Force, its command was handed over to Brazil. What factors have motivated Brazil's …

This article argues that since 2005, the global security discourse has confused maritime
piracy off the Horn of Africa with terrorism. US and European policymakers and financiers …

This article joins the nascent debate on the causal status of securitisation theory. Relying on
critical realist's efforts to deepen and broaden the concept of cause–defined as 'causal …

This study introduces the TUBAKOV dataset, which offers extensive data on 57
peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that Turkey has contributed to between the years 1988 …

This article analyses the Norwegian governance of maritime security that surrounds the
accommodation of armed private security provision on board Norwegian-registered ships …

Relying on the literature on the political economy of new wars, this article aims to challenge
the policy articulation of Somali piracy through the security–development nexus in recent …

This article is a deep dive into those factors in one specific case: The decision to reinforce
the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) after the war between Israel and Hezbollah in …

Africa is known for its challenging security landscape, but some recent outlooks, as
portrayed in The Economist of December 2013, raise a rosier image of the continent's future …

Em menos de uma década, o problema da pirataria deixou de ser uma questão económica
marginal, tratada através das relações rotineiras entre as companhias de navegação e as …

This dissertation examines the unintended and collateral effects of third-party interventions
in war-torn countries. Building on the most recent findings in peacekeeping literature that …