Kyle Beardsley

Books

• Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, and David Quinn (eds.), Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises, Edward Elgar Publishing (2019). Book info. Flyer.

I co-edited and contributed to a Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises. The handbook is an essential reference for postgraduate researchers and practitioners of international politics and conflict negotiation.

• Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley, Equal-Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States, Oxford University Press, in the Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations series (2017). Book info. Replication data.
  • Awarded “2018 Conflict Processes Best Book Award” by the APSA
  • Awarded “2017 Best Book of the Year” by the Conflict Research Society.

In Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping, Sabrina Karim and I examine the consequences of and potential solutions to gender power imbalances in peace operations.

• Kyle Beardsley, The Mediation Dilemma, Cornell University Press, in the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs series (2011). Book info. Replication data.

My first book, The Mediation Dilemma, examines why mediation tends to do well in the short run to abate conflict, but, in the long run, mediated settlements tend to be more fragile.