Kseniya Oksamytna is Lecturer in International Politics at City University of London and Visiting Research Fellow working on ESRC-funded project ‘Democratization and UN Peacebuilding’ led by Oisín Tansey (King’s College London), Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading), and Birte Gippert (University of Liverpool).

She is a member of the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group. She serves as Reviews Editor of International Peacekeeping.

Research interests

• International organisations
• International bureaucracies
• Peacekeeping and peacebuilding

Recent Publications

Books

• Advocacy and Change in International Organizations: Communication, Protection, and Reconstruction in UN Peacekeeping (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (edited by Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud, Manchester University Press, 2020)

Articles

• Imperialism, Supremacy, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Contemporary Security Policy (2023)
• Adoption, Adaptation or Chance? Inter-Organisational Diffusion of the Protection of Civilians Norm from the UN to the African Union (with Nina Wilén), Third World Quarterly (2022)
• Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset (with Jessica Di Salvatore, Magnus Lundgren, and Hannah Smidt), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2022) + website: https://peacemandates.com
• Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping (with Magnus Lundgren and Vincenzo Bove), Journal of Conflict Resolution (2022)
• Decorating the ‘Christmas Tree’: The UN Security Council and the Secretariat’s Recommendations on Peacekeeping Operations (with Magnus Lundgren), Global Governance (2021)
• Leadership Selection in United Nations Peacekeeping (with Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Quarterly (2021)
• Only as Fast as Its Troop Contributors: Incentives, Capabilities, and Constraints in the UN’s Peacekeeping Response (with Magnus Lundgren and Katharina P. Coleman), Journal of Peace Research (2021)
• Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Pitfalls of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations (with Katharina P. Coleman and Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Review (2020)
• Policy Entrepreneurship by International Bureaucracies: The Evolution of Public Information in UN Peacekeeping, International Peacekeeping (2018)

Chapters

• Public Information and Strategic Communications in Peace Operations (in Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations, edited by Han Dorussen, 2022)
• ‘Civil Society and the UN Security Council: Advocacy on the Rwandan Genocide’, in Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs (edited by Raffaele Marchetti, Palgrave, 2016)

Media and Policy

• Responsible Management and Use of Data in UN Peace Operations, International Peace Institute (2023)
• Ukraine: Russian Attitudes to Ukrainians Can Help to Explain the Atrocities, The Conversation (2022)
• Russia, NATO, and International Organizations, The Global Observatory, International Peace Institute (2022)
• Are UN Peacekeeping Leaders Held to Account? (with Magnus Lundgren and Vincenzo Bove), Political Violence at a Glance (2022)
• Peacekeeping Bosses Should Be Chosen by the UN and Not the Paymasters, PassBlue (2020)
• ‘Peacekeeping Country Profile: Ukraine, Providing for Peacekeeping, International Peace Institute (2016)

Dr Oksamytna's Research Profile