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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 406-424, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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UN Peacekeeping Economies and Local Sex Industries: Connections and Implications [PDF]

“Peacekeeping economies” have not been subject to much analysis of either their economic or socio-cultural and political impacts. This paper uses a gendered lens to explore some ramifications and lasting implications of peacekeeping economies, drawing on
Kathleen M. Jennings, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic   +1 more
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The composition of UN peacekeeping missions

, 2022
We explore the role of mission composition as a potential factor influencing the outcomes of UN peacekeeping operations. We focus on three important dimensions of composition: who the peacekeepers are, how they are combined, and whom they interact with ...
Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa, Andrea Ruggeri   +2 more
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Brazil’s rising profile in United Nations peacekeeping operations since the end of the cold war [PDF]

, 2014
Brazil’s engagement in United Nations (UN)-mandated peacekeeping operations dates from 1956. Since then the country has participated in 46 of 65 UN peacekeeping operations, deploying 11,669 personnel in total.
Cravo, Teresa Almeida, Santos, Rita
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Assessing UN Peacekeeping Missions in Central African Republic (CAR) through the Lens of Returning Pakistani Peacekeeping Troops: Perceptions and Challenges

NUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2019
The research surrounding the effectiveness of UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs) has been an on-going process ever since the inception of these operations. The available literature discusses the successes and failures of the missions depending on
Ayesha Ishfaq
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The Contribution of Critical Theory to New Thinking on Peacekeeping: Some Lessons from MINURSO

, 2005
YesThis paper sums up the findings from the first comprehensive study on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. This research project explores the possibilities of using a Foucualtian analysis to look at the links between ...
Solà Martín, Andreu
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Does the Presence of Women Really Matter? Towards Combating Male Sexual Violence in Peacekeeping Operations

, 2010
Women are being encouraged to join peacekeeping operations as sexual violence problem-solving forces while simultaneously undertaking a complex role as 'protectors' of local women from local men and male peacekeepers.
Simic, Olivera
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Short-term and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations [PDF]

Earlier studies have shown that United Nations peace operations make a positive contribution to peacebuilding efforts after civil wars. But do these effects carry over to the period after the peacekeepers leave?
Sambanis, Nicholas
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Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009

, 2010
Based on library research this thesis examines the contribution of the SADC's peace and security efforts towards enhancing the larger security on the African continent.
Nagar, Dawn Isabel
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UN Peacekeeping Operations: Conflicting Interests and Effectiveness

, 2023
Private interests influence the decisions of troop-providers to deploy troops to UN peacekeeping missions. The pursuit of private benefits affects how peacekeeping missions’ mandates are fulfilled.
Giray, Burak
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