“There have always been wars and there is nothing that can be done about it” That widespread notion is decisively disproven by these summaries of 180 wars that have been...
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Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina – UPDATED
External Links:Bloomsbury AcademicAmazonGoogle Books On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered in Sarajevo to mark the official formation of a new, unified, and multiethnic military: The...
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Stopping War: 101 Successful Efforts to Reduce Armed Conflict
The original objective of Dr. Short’s calling attention to 101 peacebuilding successes was to provide evidence that peacebuilding can in fact be effective in order to encourage more support for...
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Peace and Conflict Since 1991: War, Intervention and Peacebuilding Organizations.
[ Co-Authored with Milt Lauenstein ] Peter Lang ( 2020 ) This book provides a fact-filled overview of the problem of political violence and what is being done to ameliorate...
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[Review] Colm Doyle, Witness to War Crimes: The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia. (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2018)
European History Quarterly (2018) Here I review Colm Doyle’s superb memoir of his time serving as a peacekeeper during the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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The Orao Affair: The Key to Military Integration in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies (2018) Following Dayton, three ethnocentric armies remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina, presenting a significant obstacle to the consolidation of the multiethnic Bosnian state. This...
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Why the US Failed in Afghanistan and How the World can Succeed
Please find the downloadable PDF below. For an executive summary please refer to my blog post about the article here.
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How Local People Stop War
Please find the downloadable PDF below. For an executive summary please refer to my blog post about the article here.
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The Research Implications of the Report on Stopping War
Please find the downloadable PDF below. For an executive summary please refer to my blog post about the article here.
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An Assessment of the Effectiveness of International Statebuilding Initiatives at Preventing the Return of Armed Conflict in Countries Recovering from War: The Cases of Burundi, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nepal
Please find the downloadable PDF below. For an executive summary please refer to my blog post about the article here.
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The Regimental System and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Centar za sigurnosne studije – BiH/Centre for Security Studies – Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018) In this paper, written during my time working with CSS – BiH, I explain the history...
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Think the Bosnia Conflict Was a Civil War?
War is Boring (2018) Another title that I didn’t choose, but an interesting article on the 1992 – 1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In it, I highlight the problematic...
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Fitzroy Maclean Fought the Nazis, Blew Up Forts and Met a King
War is Boring (2018) – Republished in Defense Maven (2018) I rarely get to choose the title of articles such as this, and this one in particular is not a...
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Europe’s Last World War II Battle
War is Boring (2018) – Republished in The National Interest (2018) This article provides an account of the last battle of the Second World War to take place on European...
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Yugoslav Military Doctrine Hastened the Country’s Collapse
War is Boring (2018) This article provides a new perspective on the collapse of Yugoslavia, highlighting the extent to which the decisions and policies of Yugoslav leaders regarding defence contributed...
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What Happens to Us When Robots Fight Our Wars?’
War is Boring (2018) This article concerns the rise of robot soldiers on the contemporary battlefield and explores the unforeseen social impacts that may result from replacing the human soldier...
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How the War in Iraq Unintentionally Helped Stabilise Bosnia
The Conversation (2018) Republished in The New European (2018) This article, written for The Conversation but republished in The New European along with numerous other media outlets around the world,...
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