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The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and the Responsibility to Protect

In Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne, eds., Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 509-52.

States of Mind: The Role of Governance Schemas in Foreign-Imposed Regime Change

International Relations 29:2 (2015), 139-76.

Responsibility to Protect: The Debate Continues

International Peacekeeping 22:2 (2015), pp. 143-50.

Evolution or Escalation? Canada's Military Mission in Iraq

Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, Policy Brief no. 26 (January 2015).

Is It Possible to Meet the ‘Responsibility to Protect’?

Washington Post, Monkey Cage These are difficult days for defenders of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which holds that...

The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and the Structural Problems of Preventive Humanitarian Intervention

International Peacekeeping 21:5 (2014), pp. 569-603.

The Geopolitics of Peace Operations: A Research Agenda

International Peacekeeping 21:4 (Fall 2014), pp. 501-508.

Peacekeeping Works Better Than You May Think

CIPS and CIC blogs Does peacekeeping work? Janice Stein (University of Toronto) and I had a lively exchange on this subject on the CBC...

Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?

Perspectives on Politics 11:2 (June 2013), pp. 538-548 The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, which deposed the Taliban...

Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations

Co-edited with Timothy D. Sisk; Routledge, 2009.

Ethical Dilemmas and the Contradictions of Peacebuilding

Presentation at the Launch of the Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics, New York The idea of developing an ongoing conversation between...

At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict

Cambridge University Press, 2004. Winner of the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order and 2005 Chadwick F. Alger Award.

The Burden of Nation-Building in Postwar Iraq

In Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu, eds., The Iraq War and Its Consequences (World Scientific Publishers, 2003)

Kosovo and the Metaphor War

Political Science Quarterly 117:3 (Fall 2002), pp. 423-50 Abstract: In the spring of 1999, American political leaders debated how to...

International Peacebuilding and the ‘Mission Civilisatrice’

Review of International Studies 28:4 (Oct. 2002), pp. 637-56 Abstract: International peacebuilding operations seek to stabilise countries...

Roland Paris