Sommige veiligheidsproblemen kunnen individuele landen niet alleen oplossen. We noemen de bijdrage aan deze veiligheidsproblemen ook wel Internationale Publieke Goederen (IPG). Omdat het gewenste veiligheidsniveau niet op een effectieve of efficiënte wijze door een individueel land kan worden gerealiseerd, …

In this blog, we analyze the (potential) effects of the coronavirus on UN peacekeeping, making use of a number of recent blogs and reports from scholars and think tanks. We argue that peace operations are affected by the coronavirus on three levels: at the level of the operations themselves, at the level …

Military intervention is a collective enterprise which may have a great moral impact on soldiers. Although this has since long been known, most current conceptualizations of military distress pay marginal attention to its moral and sociopolitical-political aspects. Current concepts such as 'post-traumatic …

Military personnel encounter moral dilemmas during deployments and in their work environment at home. Moral dilemmas are situations in which two mutually exclusive actions exist, embodying conflicting values. Dealing with moral dilemmas requires moral competence. There is a growing awareness of the need …

Following the withdrawal of large scale military contingents from Afghanistan and Iraq, enthusiasm in the Western world for what has been called armed state-building seems to have sunk to an all-time low. This is not entirely surprising given the high stakes and the meagre results of the massive efforts …

The author reflects on the nature of exit from state-building missions and the challenge of evaluating it. He does this by first discussing the growing importance of evaluation and the conditions required for a proper evaluation as exposed in the professional evaluation literature, He refers here to …

Overview of recent issues central to political, military, and academic debates about political and military exit strategies from conflicts and wars. One important concept is the supposed political military divide, time and again expressed in the dichotomy end states versus end dates.

In studies of soldiers’ fears and behavior during war it has been generally acknowledged that their paramount concern is not fear of death, but the fate of their comrades and subordinates. This study aims to delve deeper into this issue. This study deals with the impact of actual death threat on self-perceptions …

By means of the economic analysis of strategic behavior it is attempted to elucidate the decision making on peace support operations of the armed forces. The analysis reveals that the choice between peace keeping based on the supposed agreement of the parties involved in the conflict - and peace enforcing …

In 2004 verscheen in dit tijdschrift een artikel over ontmoetingen tussen de Nederlandse en Turkse krijgsmacht tijdens de vredesoperaties in Kosovo en Afghanistan. Een van de belangrijke conclusies van dat artikel was dat de Turkse respondenten zich er op lieten voorstaan dat zij zulke goede contacten …