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Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud (eds) United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory

Practice Theories

By: Ingvild Bode Published in: Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud (eds) United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 129-148. [peer-reviewed] Date: 2020 Type: Chapter in book About the book United Nations peace operations have undergone multiple transformations over the more than seventy years of their existence. Multidimensional peace operations […]

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Christian Henrich-Franke, Christian Lahusen, Robert Kaiser, and Andrea Schneiker (eds) Transnational Expertise

Expertise as Social Practice: The Individual Construction of Experts

By: Ingvild Bode Published in: Christian Henrich-Franke, Christian Lahusen, Robert Kaiser, and Andrea Schneiker (eds) Transnational Expertise (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 101-126. Date: 2018 Type: Chapter in book About the book This edited volume is devoted to analysing transnational expertise, a topic that has received considerable attention in the social sciences and history, especially in research

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Book 2015 - Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations: The People of the United Nations

Individual Agency and Policy Change at the United Nations: The People of the United Nations

By: Ingvild Bode Published in: London – Routledge Date: 2015 Summary This book highlights how temporary international civil servants play a crucial role in initiating processes of legal and institutional change in the United Nations system. These individuals are the “missing” creative elements needed to fully understand the emergence and initial spread of UN ideas such as human

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Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations: The Post-9/11 US Challenge to International Law

By: Aiden Warren and Ingvild Bode Published in: Basingstoke – Palgrave Macmillan Date: 2014 Summary This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented

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