Sabrina Karim, Dartmouth Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security (2016-2017), and Kyle Beardsley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University

Sabrina Karim is a Dartmouth Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security. Her research interests include gender reforms in the post-conflict security sector and in peacekeeping, the effect of security sector reform on peace and security, third party involvement in peace processes, and the relationship between conflict-related violence and post-conflict sexual violence.

Kyle Beardsley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is author of The Mediation Dilemma. His research interests include third-party involvement in peace processes, the nature of intrastate rebellion, gender reforms in post-conflict security forces, and nuclear weapons.

Winner of the 2017 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize
Winner of the American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Section Best Book Award

"Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping has laid valuable grounds for showing that peacekeeping organizations are profoundly gender biased a highly interesting contribution to our understanding of the global power structures that are embodied in peacekeeping." - Perspectives on Politics

"Equal opportunity peacekeeping presents a systematic and thorough overview of relevant feminist scholarship, with the aim to generate 'theoretical expectations' especially regarding practices of 'female ratio balancing', where the numbers of female peacekeepers is increased." - Soumita Basu, International Affairs

"A major strength of the book is its robust empirical analysis of a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative data sources through which it demonstrates the limitations of existing reforms of gender and peacekeeping. Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping makes a significant contribution to identifying the mechanisms through which peacekeeping practices can begin to equally value womens participation, which will be of considerable interest to all students of gender and international relations." - Matthew Kearns, E-International Relations

"Karim (Cornell) and Beardsley (Duke) have given us a theoretically informed, data-driven analysis of both gender (in)equality in peacekeeping units and the sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and violence (SEAHV) that often accompany their deployments. Intended for specialists and advanced students, this book is highly recommended for university libraries and specialized collections on international affairs and security studies." - CHOICE