War, peace and security

Books and book chapters

Autessere, Severine. 2021. The Frontlines of Peace. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Eriksson Baaz, Maria and Stern, Maria. 2013. Sexual Violence as Weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond. London: Zed books. Available at: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1148245/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Bareis, Jascha & Christian Bächle. The realities of autonomous weapons: Hedging a hybrid space of fact and fiction. In: Jascha Bareis & Christian Bächle (Eds). The realities of autonomous weapons. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Bousquet, Antoine. 2016. “War”. In: Felix Berenskoetter (Ed.). Concepts in world politics. London: Sage, pp. 91-106.

Buzan, Barry & Ole Wæver & Jaap de Wilde 1998. Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder/CO: Lynne Rienner: 21-82.

Buzan, Barry and Ole Wæver: Regions and Powers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2003.

Coker, Christopher 2014. Future war. Cambridge: Polity (chapter 3: Technology).

Goetze, Catherine (2017). The distinction of peace: a social analysis of peacebuilding, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-07341-2

Howard, Michael. 2000. The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order. New Haven, CT: Yale UP.

Kant, Immanuel. 1897. Perpetual peace: a philosophic essay. Massachusetts: American Peace Society, 1897. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101007795030&view=1up&seq=12

King, Anthony 2025. AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Koops, Joachim A., Norrie MacQueen, Thierry Tardy, Paul D. Williams. 2015. ‘Introduction: Peacekeeping in the Twenty-First Century: 1999–2013’, in Joachim A. Koops et al (eds) *The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, *607–616, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686049.013.77

Maleŝević, Siniŝa, 2010. The Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge University Press (chapter 2).

Richmond, Oliver & Felix Berenskoetter 2016. Peace. In: Felix Berenskoetter (Ed). Concepts in World Politics. London: Sage, pp. 107-124.

Schwarz, Elke 2025. Engineering moral failure? The challenge of algorithmic ethics for lethal autonomous weapons. In: Jascha Bareis & Christian Bächle (Eds). The realities of autonomous weapons. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Strachan, Hew and Sibylle Scheipers, 2011: “Introduction: The Changing Character of War”. In: Strachan, Hew and Sibylle Scheipers (Eds.). The Changing Character of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (e-book available through Gothenburg University Library).

van Bijlert, Martine. 2021. Between Hope and Fear: Rural Afghan women talk about peace and war. Afghanistan Analysts Network, Special Report, July 2021. https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/2021-Rural-women-peace-and-war-FINAL-website.pdf

Wæver, Ole (1995): Securitization and Descuritization; in: Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (Ed.): On Security; New York: Columbia UP, pp. 46-86.

Williams, Paul D & Matt MacDonald (Eds) 2023, 4th ed. Security Studies: An introduction. London: Routledge

Articles

Autessere, Séverine. 2019. ‘The Crisis of Peacekeeping: Why the UN Can’t End Wars’. Foreign Affairs, 98(1), 101-110.

Balzacq, Thierry 2019. Securitization Theory: Past, Present, and Future. Polity 51(2): 331-348.

Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M., 2006. The postcolonial moment in security studies. Review of international studies, 32(2), pp.329-352.

Bousquet, Antoine 2008. Chaoplexic Warfare or the Future of Military Organization. International Affairs 84 (5), pp. 915–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.14682346.2008.00746.x.

Burke, Anthony, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell, Simon Dalby, and Daniel J. Levine. “Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR.” Millennium 44, no. 3 (June 1, 2016): 499–523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816636674.

Chandler, David, Erika Cudworth, and Stephen Hobden. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene and Liberal Cosmopolitan IR: A Response to Burke et al.’s ‘Planet Politics.’” Millennium 46, no. 2 (2018). https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/doi/10.1177/0305829817715247?icid=int.sj- full-text.similar-articles.3.

Fallon, Joseph E. 2013. U.S. Geopolitics: Afghanistan and the Containment of China. https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/us-geopolitics-afghanistan-and-the-containment-of-china

Kearns, Gerry. 2013. Beyond the Legacy of Mackinder, Geopolitics, 18:4, 917-932, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2013.789865

Kenneth Payne 2018. Artificial intelligence: A revolution in military affairs? Survival 60 (5), pp. 7-32 https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2018.1518374

Kühn, Florian P (2012): The Peace Prefix: Ambiguities of the Word ‘Peace’. International Peacekeeping, 19 (4): 396-409. DOI:10.1080/13533312.2012.709785.

Mamdani, Mahmoud. 2010. ‘Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?’. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 4(1), 53-67.

Schlichte, Klaus & Ulrich Schneckener 2015. Armed Groups and the Politics of Legitimacy. Civil Wars 17 (4), 409–24.

Schouten, Peer 2021. It’s the roads stupid. Foreign Policy. June 2021.

Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. www.un.org

UN-charter, https://[www.un.org/en/charter-united-nations/](http://www.un.org/en/charter-united-nations/)