Co-Director
Prof. Chiara Ruffa
Full Professor in International Relations
CERI 
Chiara is a professor in political science (specialising in International Relations) at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po. Her research is about multilateralism on the ground, peacekeeping operations, norms, cultures and civil-military relations. Her work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Global Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, Armed Forces and Society, among others. Her first book Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. Her second book (with Vincenzo Bove and Andrea Ruggeri) Composing Peace. Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping was published by Oxford University Press in April 2020. Her research has been funded by the European Commission, COST Action, Fulbright Commission, the Swedish Research Council, the Royal Swedish Academy, among others.
Forschungsthemen: multilateralism, peacekeeping, military organizations, norms and cultures
Neueste Veröffentlichungen
- Rituals without Rapprochement? Managing Hostility at the Tripartite Meetings in the United Nations Mission in Lebanon
- FBA Research Brief - Mission Leaders: An Evidence-based Assessment
- Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali
- Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire
- Meaning-Making in Peacekeeping Missions: Mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali
Konferenzbeiträge
- What Does Military Professionalism Mean? A Contested Concept in the Post-Heroic Society
- Masculine Cultures, Exclusion Mechanisms and Retention of Female Personnel in the Military
- Barefoot Soldiers and Skiing Nations: Incoherence, Coping Strategies and the Making of Meaning in the UN Mission in Mali