Expert Network Expert of the Month – June 2017 Contributor

Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has been a Specialist-Advisor to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs in the UK House of Commons; a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Editor of World Policy Journal, and New York Director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations and to various national governments, and as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States.

Richard’s principal research interests are concerned with international organisations and conflict management, with a particular focus on post-conflict peace- and state-building. He is the author and editor of several books, including International Governance of War-torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press), Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press), Exit Strategies and State Building (Oxford University Press), and The Measure of Peace (forthcoming).

Articles Authored

How effective is UN peacekeeping? (1 June 2017) - Peacekeeping is at the centre of the UN’s efforts to maintain international peace and security. Today, more than 100,000 soldiers and police from 125 countries are serving as blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers around the world.