In Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, Chiara Ruffa challenges the widely held assumption that military contingents, regardless of their origins, implement mandates in a similar manner.

Nevertheless, the book aims to go beyond the parochial debates of burden-sharing or division of labor in transatlantic relations. It focuses on_and actually proposes_a broader framework of cooperation and coordination for the EU and the US.

This book focuses on four types of mission composition--diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between peacekeepers and locals.

During complex humanitarian emergencies, the relations between humanitarian NGOs and military organization vary widely, ranging from hostility to cooperation.

I argue, first, that this is because the dichotomy of success and failure of a mission does not always reflect a military organization's 'peace operation effectiveness, ' a new concept developed to evaluate peacekeepers' practices.

This book explores diversity in the composition of peace missions (in terms of peacekeepers' nationalities, linguistic, and religious differences deployed) and theorizes about the impact of mission composition on peacekeeping effectiveness.

This case is about the comparative case study method and discusses the opportunities and challenges of designing and conducting it in practice.