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David Teiner

@davidteiner.bsky.social

PhD Candidate in International Relations at Trier University. Focus on leadership and strategic planning in UN peace operations and organizational dynamics of armed groups.

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The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA): Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire Published in International Peacekeeping (Ahead of Print, 2025)

▶️ New book review out in International Peacekeeping: @davidteiner.bsky.social reviews "The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA): Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire” by Arthur Boutellis

▶️ Check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1353...

02.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Call for papers 2025 - CRS Call for papers 2025 CRS

🎓 The call is out for my favorite academic conference: the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025. If you like your conferences inviting, informal, theoretically and empirically diverse, and full of relevant practitioners, CRS is for you!

conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...

25.11.2024 15:44 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
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🌍 Challenges Annual Forum #CAF24Berlin will gather 100+ participants, to discuss #NextGeneration of #PeaceOperations Exploring how to overcome the barriers & upgrade the toolbox.

Co-hosted by @zif.bsky.social
📅3-4 Dec
🎬Follow the live stream bit.ly/3V1sNXs

Future of #Peacekeeping #Peacebuilding

27.11.2024 09:51 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

An absolutely fascinating article by @davidteiner.bsky.social, who has used interviews to better understand the leadership of #UN peace operations.

Open access too!

23.11.2024 10:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🎉🎉🎉 Our new book 'United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism' with @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck is now available for pre-order and will be open access with Oxford University Press from February 2025 🎉🎉🎉 (1/5)

22.11.2024 10:03 — 👍 53    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 4

Thank you so much - I'm happy that you liked it!

23.11.2024 11:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Persistent Practices? Understanding Continuity and Change in SRSGs’ Leadership of UN Peace Operations* In UN peace operations, the special representatives (SRSGs) as heads of mission take on a range of complex, sometimes unfathomable, tasks. This article addresses the question of how individuals inf...

Happy to see so many people are escaping Twitter and reconnecting here! I hope you find my latest article in International Peacekeeping of interest. I address how professional experiences influence the leadership practices of SRSGs as heads of UN peace operations.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

19.11.2024 12:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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There's a wonderful initiative by @mybisa.bsky.social and
Shepherd - recent book authors can recommend five books that are particularly useful for understanding a certain IR topic

Here's my list of five books on the UN 🇺🇳

shepherd.com/best-books/t...

14.10.2024 11:40 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

SAMIDRC🇨🇩 was deployed 15 December 2023 to support the 🇨🇩Government restore peace and security in eastern DRC. TCCs are Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania; Force Commander 🇿🇦; stated legal basis is collective self-defense.
No details on the size of the force or its composition.
www.sadc.int/latest-news/...

04.01.2024 13:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Beyond Zero Tolerance: The Persisting Challenge of Sexual Abuse by UN Peacekeepers - PRIF BLOG The United Nations (UN) deploys peacekeepers worldwide to help build peace and security. Meanwhile, a serious problem persists: sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) perpetrated by peacekeepers. Despite...

Despite their mission, UN peacekeepers keep being reported for sexual exploitation and abuse. Julia Radke examines how military masculinity culture in UN contexts perpetuates gender-based violence. New article on PRIF Blog ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2024/01/04/b...

04.01.2024 15:09 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human security and development. While most communal conflicts take pla…

🔖 New open-access article out in @WorldDevJournal on why some armed groups restrain violent communal conflict in areas under their control while others do not ⤵️

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

04.01.2024 08:08 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
Civil Wars at 25: Introduction to the Silver Anniversary Special Issue Published in Civil Wars (Vol. 25, No. 2-3, 2023)

It’s a bumper, special issue with 29 individual elements across five sections spanning 600+ pages – in our introduction, James Worrall and I (Alex Waterman) outline our thought processes behind putting the issue together, reflect on its development and celebrate editorial teams past and present

16.12.2023 00:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The wonderful editors of @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
have composed an incredible special issue at the occasion of their 25th birthday. @reginesonja.bsky.social and I are proud to be a part of this remarkable collection of articles with a re-examination of the state/non-state binary

15.12.2023 17:13 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

@hilarymatfess.bsky.social reviews how our understanding of rebel socialisation has evolved over time, expanding on calls for greater attention to “love and care” in security studies and laying out an agenda for examining care and marriage in rebel groups www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

16.12.2023 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Earlier this year, I asked Prof. Martha Finnemore why norms matter for international security. She was kind enough to record a very informative 10 mins video on the topic that I use in one of my online classes. 📺👇
youtu.be/PU28kb40oHM?...

14.12.2023 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Participating in UN peacekeeping missions used to be seen as an appropriate way to improve civil-military relations in countries where armed forces held undue political power. Nevertheless, a growing body of scholarship cautions that sending troops to increasingly coercive peacekeeping missions can contribute to a deterioration of civil-military relations. How can this variance in outcomes of peacekeeping deployments be explained? Taking stock of the existing academic debate on socialisation processes in peacekeeping and comparing the cases of India and Brazil, this article argues that military role conceptions are a key factor for understanding the effects of peacekeeping on troop-contributing countries.

ABSTRACT Participating in UN peacekeeping missions used to be seen as an appropriate way to improve civil-military relations in countries where armed forces held undue political power. Nevertheless, a growing body of scholarship cautions that sending troops to increasingly coercive peacekeeping missions can contribute to a deterioration of civil-military relations. How can this variance in outcomes of peacekeeping deployments be explained? Taking stock of the existing academic debate on socialisation processes in peacekeeping and comparing the cases of India and Brazil, this article argues that military role conceptions are a key factor for understanding the effects of peacekeeping on troop-contributing countries.

My article on UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries has now been included in the most recent issue of JISB

Free download link here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RUTFB...
#CivMilSky #Polisky

01.12.2023 07:15 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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How is sexual violence – particularly when men are victims – theorized in global politics?
 
In this article from 2021, @ProfMarysiaZed untangles the complexities of feminist thought at the intersection of gender, sex, and violence.
 
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

04.12.2023 10:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, is now out (open access):

"Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

01.12.2023 09:29 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

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