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The Renaissance of Impeachment (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D. (2023). The Renaissance of Impeachment. In C. Monaghan, & M. Flinders (Eds.), British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255956-15

This chapter provides a personal account of the origin and conduct of the campaign by some members of the British House of Commons to use the idea and process of impeachment to bring the then Prime Minister Tony Blair MP to account for his conduct in... Read More about The Renaissance of Impeachment.

The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Schneider, G. (2023). The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation. In S. K. Knapton, & K. Rossy (Eds.), Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (175-193). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350182707.ch-8

The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD (2023)
Thesis
Mikkelsen, J. F. The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis seeks new insight into the role of the executive heads of inter-governmental organisations, particularly the nexus of the relationships with the political world of member states, non-member states, and other multilateral actors, and the i... Read More about The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD.

A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations (2023)
Thesis
Vickery, N. J. A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

thesis is an archival history using evidence from British wartime planning and policy pursued in the early years (1945-47) of the UN to understand elite UK policymaker expectations of the role of the UN. It challenges the understanding of British pol... Read More about A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations.

Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights (2021)
Book
Adami, R., & Plesch, D. (Eds.). (2021). Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036708

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies wit... Read More about Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights.

Commentary: The restorative archeology of knowledge about the role of women in the history of the UN – Theoretical implications for international relations (2021)
Book Chapter
Adami, R., Plesch, D., & Acharya, A. (2021). Commentary: The restorative archeology of knowledge about the role of women in the history of the UN – Theoretical implications for international relations. In R. Adami, & D. Plesch (Eds.), Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights (161-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036708-10

The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament (2019)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Miletic, K. (2019). The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament. In M. B. Bolton, T. Benjamin-Britton, & S. Njeri (Eds.), Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament (199-224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27611-9_7

While the current interpretation of humanitarian disarmament focuses only on the prohibition of certain types of weapons that are indiscriminate in their effects or cause unacceptable harm such as nuclear weapons, landmines, blinding laser weapons an... Read More about The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament.