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Emily Paddon Rhoads book is timely and thought-provoking. It brings much needed clarity to the normative and operational challenges facing contemporary peacekeeping. A must-read for policy-makers and peace advocates alike. Louise Frechette, UN Deputy Secretary-General 1998-2006 This is an important and most impressive contribution to the burgeoning literature on UN peacekeeping and the challenges of third party intervention in civil wars. Taking Sides in Peacekeeping offers a timely, intellectually rigorous and highly persuasive critique of developments in UN peacekeeping since the turn of the century. Through its fine-grained analysis of the UNs troubled history of peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it shows, among other things, how the pursuit of robustness by UN peacekeepers in the absence of clarity on strategic and political objectives has had unintended and, at times, perverse consequences. In doing so it also raises much larger questions about the UNs role in international peace and security. It is an excellent book, deserving of a wide readership. Professor Mats Berdal, Department of War Studies, Kings College London Paddon Rhoads is a rare example of a political scientist who can shore up her insights on the quandaries of peacekeeping with deep, nuanced field research in the Congo and UN headquarters. As we enter a new era of peacekeeping, in which missions are increasingly deployed into conflict where there is little peace to keep, her examination of impartiality should become required reading for practitioners and academics. Jason Stearns, Director, Congo Research Group, New York University and author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (New York: Public Affairs, 2011)

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Emily Paddon Rhoads is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. Her research analyses the increased prominence of human rights in the theory and practice of armed conflict. She focuses specifically on the politics and practices of United Nations peacekeeping, humanitarianism, and military intervention with a geographical emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. She is the former Rose Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a European Research Council (ERC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her PhD is from the University of Oxford, where she was a Trudeau Scholar.

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