Professor Mats Berdal
Department of War Studies
King’s College London
Select Publications
· “A Good Ally – Norway and International Statebuilding in Afghanistan, 2001-2014”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol.40, 2017, co-authored with Astri Suhrke.
· “ ‘Realism as an unsentimental intellectual temper’ – Lawrence Freedman and the New Interventionism”, in The Art of Creating Power – Freedman on Strategy, ed. by Benedict Wilkinson and James Gow (London: Hurst & Co, 2017)
· “The State of UN Peacekeeping – Lessons from Congo”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2016.
· “Afghanistan and After – Reflections on Western Interventionism and State Fragility in the post-Cold War Era”, in Rethinking State Fragility, British Academy Publication, April 2015.
· “A Mission too Far ? – NATO in Afghanistan, 2001-2014”, in War, Strategy and History: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert O’Neill, ed. by Daniel Marston and Tamara Leahy, (Canberra: ANU Press, Australian National University, 2016).
· “The UN and the Use of Force: Problems and Prospects”, RUSI Journal, Vol.160, No.1, February/March 2015, with David Ucko.
· “United Nations Peacekeeping and the Responsibility to Protect”, in Theorising the Responsibility to Protect, ed. by Ramesh Thakur and William Maley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
· “The Balkans, 1990-1998”, in The UN Security Council in the 21st Century, ed. by Sebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone, and Bruno Stagno Ugarte (Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner, 2015).
· “Peacebuilding and Development” in International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects, ed. by David Malone, Rohinton Medhora, Bruce Currie-Alder and Ravi Kanbur (Oxford: OUP, 2014)
· Power after Peace: The Political Economy of State-building, ed. by Mats Berdal and Dominik Zaum
(London: Routledge, 2012)
· “The Political Economy of Protectorates and Post-Conflict Intervention” (co-authored with David Keen) in The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States ed. by James Mayall and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (London: Hurst & Co. 2011).
· The Peace In Between: Postwar Violence and Peacebuilding, ed. by Mats Berdal and Astri Suhrke (London: Routledge, 2011)
· "The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited" in TheChanging Character of War, ed. by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
· Ending War, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives, ed. by Mats Berdal and Achim Wennmann (Abingdon: Routledge for IISS, 2010).
· Building Peace After War (Abingdon: Routledge for IISS, 2009)
· Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition, ed. Mats Berdal and David H. Ucko (London: Routledge, 2009)
· “NATO at 60”, Survival, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 2009, co-authored with David H. Ucko.
· “Humanity’s Mirror”, Survival, Vol. 50, No. 5, October-November 2008.
· “The UN Security Council and Peacekeeping” in The Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum, eds (Oxford: OUP, 2008)
· “Consolidating Peace in the Aftermath of War – Reflections on ‘Post-Conflict Peace-Building’ from Bosnia to Iraq”, in John Andreas Olsen, ed., On New Wars (Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, 2007).
· United Nations Interventionism, 1991-2004, Mats Berdal, Spyros Economides, eds (Cambridge University Press, February 2007).
· “Sources of Adherence to Multilateral Institutions: the case of the UN”, La Comunità Internazionale, Vol. LXI, No.4, 2006.
· “The UN’s Unnecessary Crisis”, Survival, Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn, 2005.
· “Beyond Greed and Grievance - and not too soon . . .”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005.
· “The UN after Iraq”, Survival, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2005
· “The UN, Peacebuilding and the Genocide in Rwanda”, Global Governance, Vol. 11, No 1, January-March 2005.
· “How ‘New’ are ‘New Wars’ ? - Global Economic Change and the Study of Civil wars”, Global Governance, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2003.
· “The UN Security Council: Ineffective but Indispensable”, Survival, vol. 45, No. 2, Summer 2003.
· “United Nations Peace Operations: The Brahimi Report in Context”, in Peace Support Operations: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives, Studien zu Zeitgeschichte und Sicherheitspolitik 4, Kurt R. Spillmann, Thomas Bernauer, Jurg Gabriel and Andreas Wenger, eds. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001).
· “From Operation ‘Maritime Monitor’ to ‘Allied Force’: Relations Between NATO and the United Nations in the 1990s”, A History of NATO: The First Fifty Years, Vol. 1, Gustav Schmidt, ed. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
· “The United Nations in Bosnia 1992-1995: Fateful Scapegoat to the World?” in Leveraging for Success in Peace Operations, Jean Krasno, Bradd Hayes and Donald Daniel, eds. (Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Press, Autumn, 2002).
· “International Security after the Cold War: Aspects of Continuity and Change” in Towards the 21st Century: Trends in Post-Cold War International Security Policy, Studien zu Zeitgeschichte und Sicherheitspolitik 4, Kurt R. Spillmann and Andreas Wenger, eds. (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999).
· Business as Usual? Transnational Organised Crime and International Security, Mats Berdal and Monica Serrano, eds. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, June 2002.
· Studies in International Relations - Essays by Philip Windsor, Mats Berdal, ed. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, June 2000).
· Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Mats Berdal and David Malone, eds. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, May 2000).
· “Lessons Not Learned: The Use of Force in ‘Peace Operations’ in 1990s”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2000.
· “Boutros-Ghali’s Ambiguous Legacy”, Survival, Vol. 41, No. 3, 1999.
· The United States, Norway and the Cold War, 1954-1960 (London: Macmillan/St. Antony’s College, December 1996).
· Disarmament and Demobilisation after Civil Wars, Adelphi Paper 303, (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the IISS, 1996).
· Whither UN Peacekeeping?, Adelphi Paper 281 (London: Brassey’s for the IISS, October 1993).