Cornelius Friesendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cornelius Friesendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cornelius |
| FAMILY NAME | Friesendorf |
| SIGNATURE | FRIESENDORF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6049-4382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International Bureaucracies as Constrained Entrepreneurs
International organizations (IOs) with permanent bureaucracies depend on funding and staff. But what do IO bureaucracies do when governments repeatedly fail to adopt a budget? Building on recent debates on IO resourcing and the role of IO bureaucracies in global policymaking, this article argues that international bureaucracies act entrepreneurially during budget crises but that conflict among states places constraints on entrepreneurialism. We e…
The survival of international organizations
Die Demontage der Osze
Russia’s war against Ukraine has caused political collateral damage. One victim is the OSCE. It has lost its ability to act. Moscow uses the OSCE as a platform for propaganda and uses the principle of unanimity to paralyse it. Moscow is blocking the budget, personnel decisions, and events, such as the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The states that are interested in a functioning OSCE and support Ukraine are forced to balance between conf…
Best Practices in Security Sector Reform
Everyday Police Work Abroad
Nowadays, police officers are regularly deployed as members of multilateral peace operations. This article examines how these experts implement their mandates and how we can understand their activities. For this, we draw on a set of 90 semi-structured interviews with European police experts who have experience in multilateral policing. We find that, to navigate their work abroad, European police officers primarily rely on their own domestic polic…
Supporting Democratic Policing in Central Asia
Critics have argued that the provision of support by the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to Central Asian police risks reinforcing authoritarianism. This article examines OSCE police-related activities in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the 2010s, highlighting persistent gaps between the OSCE’s commitment to democratic policing and OSCE practices on the ground. It identifies two institutional mechanisms tha…
Military cultures in peace and stability operations
Despite the significant scholarly interest in multinational peace and stability operations, little is known about the core component of these missions: national military contingents. In her book, M
Saving soldiers or civilians? Casualty-aversion versus civilian protection in asymmetric conflicts
Saving soldiers or civilians? Casualty-aversion versus civilian protection in asymmetric conflicts." Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(1), pp. 153–154
British operations among the people and civilian risk
Debates on military intervention and small wars often include the claim that soldiers should operate among civilians in order to avoid civilian casualties and to protect civilians against third-party violence. This article, by contrast, points at negative unintended consequences of military operations taking place in close proximity to local populations: it argues that also risk-tolerant militaries cause civilian casualties and that their presenc…
Police Reform in Ukraine as Institutional Bricolage
The Euromaidan has spurred efforts to shed the communist and post-communist policing legacy marked by authoritarianism and corruption, and opened a space for democratic policing in Ukraine. This article conceptualizes police reform during the first three years after the revolution as institutional bricolage, a legacy relationship involving a mix of new and old institutional elements. New elements include a new police law and the creation of a pat…
Police assistance as foreign policy
Police assistance is an important, albeit understudied aspect of foreign policy. While many scholars have studied international and transnational policing, it remains largely unknown why donor police forces often support their colleagues in fragile states in different ways. This article discusses a variety of potential explanations of police assistance: a domestic rational actor model; a constructivist focus on international norms; and theories o…
Insurgency and Civilian Policing
Effective and legitimate policing is a necessary condition for the sustainable stabilization of war-torn countries. A crucial dilemma faced by international donors is whether to promote militarized or civilian policing. Particularly with insurgency and terrorism, police need robust capabilities to defend themselves and citizens against violence. At the same time, militarized police forces with weak oversight may fail to use proportionate force an…
Paramilitarization and Security Sector Reform
An accelerating trend to establish paramilitarized security forces has been occurring in peace operations to help fill security gaps. But the practice is problematic from a security sector reform (SSR) point of view, because SSR aims at distinguishing between the military and the police and at promoting civilian policing. This article shows that while the SSR concept leaves room for paramilitarization, it demands much caution. The paramilitarizat…
State-building and organized crime
Fighting Terrorism and Drugs
Militarized Law Enforcement in Peace Operations
The militarization of law enforcement has been a major feature of post-cold war international security: domestically, at borders and as part of peace operations. In post-war interventions, international military forces are confronted with tasks ranging from crowd and riot control and the arrest of suspect war criminals to the fight against organized crime. This article analyses and explains the militarization of law enforcement in Bosnia and Herz…
Pathologies of Security Governance
The trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation has reportedly been booming in Europe since the 1990s. Governments, international organizations, and private actors have addressed the causes and consequences of sex trafficking in various ways. This article shows that the concept of security governance helps to understand efforts against human trafficking and their shortcomings. The anti-trafficking security governance sys…
Pathologies of Security Governance
The trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation has reportedly been booming in Europe since the 1990s. Governments, international organizations, and private actors have addressed the causes and consequences of sex trafficking in various ways. This article shows that the concept of security governance helps to understand efforts against human trafficking and their shortcomings. The anti-trafficking security governance sys…
Militarized Law Enforcement in Peace Operations
The militarization of law enforcement has been a major feature of post-cold war international security: domestically, at borders and as part of peace operations. In post-war interventions, international military forces are confronted with tasks ranging from crowd and riot control and the arrest of suspect war criminals to the fight against organized crime. This article analyses and explains the militarization of law enforcement in Bosnia and Herz…
Police Reform in Ukraine as Institutional Bricolage
The Euromaidan has spurred efforts to shed the communist and post-communist policing legacy marked by authoritarianism and corruption, and opened a space for democratic policing in Ukraine. This article conceptualizes police reform during the first three years after the revolution as institutional bricolage, a legacy relationship involving a mix of new and old institutional elements. New elements include a new police law and the creation of a pat…
Paramilitarization and Security Sector Reform
An accelerating trend to establish paramilitarized security forces has been occurring in peace operations to help fill security gaps. But the practice is problematic from a security sector reform (SSR) point of view, because SSR aims at distinguishing between the military and the police and at promoting civilian policing. This article shows that while the SSR concept leaves room for paramilitarization, it demands much caution. The paramilitarizat…
Insurgency and Civilian Policing
Effective and legitimate policing is a necessary condition for the sustainable stabilization of war-torn countries. A crucial dilemma faced by international donors is whether to promote militarized or civilian policing. Particularly with insurgency and terrorism, police need robust capabilities to defend themselves and citizens against violence. At the same time, militarized police forces with weak oversight may fail to use proportionate force an…
Everyday Police Work Abroad
Nowadays, police officers are regularly deployed as members of multilateral peace operations. This article examines how these experts implement their mandates and how we can understand their activities. For this, we draw on a set of 90 semi-structured interviews with European police experts who have experience in multilateral policing. We find that, to navigate their work abroad, European police officers primarily rely on their own domestic polic…
State-building and organized crime
British operations among the people and civilian risk
Debates on military intervention and small wars often include the claim that soldiers should operate among civilians in order to avoid civilian casualties and to protect civilians against third-party violence. This article, by contrast, points at negative unintended consequences of military operations taking place in close proximity to local populations: it argues that also risk-tolerant militaries cause civilian casualties and that their presenc…
Fighting Terrorism and Drugs
Pathologies of Security Governance
The trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation has reportedly been booming in Europe since the 1990s. Governments, international organizations, and private actors have addressed the causes and consequences of sex trafficking in various ways. This article shows that the concept of security governance helps to understand efforts against human trafficking and their shortcomings. The anti-trafficking security governance sys…
Fighting Terrorism and Drugs
Militarized Law Enforcement in Peace Operations
The militarization of law enforcement has been a major feature of post-cold war international security: domestically, at borders and as part of peace operations. In post-war interventions, international military forces are confronted with tasks ranging from crowd and riot control and the arrest of suspect war criminals to the fight against organized crime. This article analyses and explains the militarization of law enforcement in Bosnia and Herz…
State-building and organized crime
Paramilitarization and Security Sector Reform
An accelerating trend to establish paramilitarized security forces has been occurring in peace operations to help fill security gaps. But the practice is problematic from a security sector reform (SSR) point of view, because SSR aims at distinguishing between the military and the police and at promoting civilian policing. This article shows that while the SSR concept leaves room for paramilitarization, it demands much caution. The paramilitarizat…
Insurgency and Civilian Policing
Effective and legitimate policing is a necessary condition for the sustainable stabilization of war-torn countries. A crucial dilemma faced by international donors is whether to promote militarized or civilian policing. Particularly with insurgency and terrorism, police need robust capabilities to defend themselves and citizens against violence. At the same time, militarized police forces with weak oversight may fail to use proportionate force an…
Police assistance as foreign policy
Police assistance is an important, albeit understudied aspect of foreign policy. While many scholars have studied international and transnational policing, it remains largely unknown why donor police forces often support their colleagues in fragile states in different ways. This article discusses a variety of potential explanations of police assistance: a domestic rational actor model; a constructivist focus on international norms; and theories o…
Police Reform in Ukraine as Institutional Bricolage
The Euromaidan has spurred efforts to shed the communist and post-communist policing legacy marked by authoritarianism and corruption, and opened a space for democratic policing in Ukraine. This article conceptualizes police reform during the first three years after the revolution as institutional bricolage, a legacy relationship involving a mix of new and old institutional elements. New elements include a new police law and the creation of a pat…
Military cultures in peace and stability operations
Despite the significant scholarly interest in multinational peace and stability operations, little is known about the core component of these missions: national military contingents. In her book, M
Saving soldiers or civilians? Casualty-aversion versus civilian protection in asymmetric conflicts
Saving soldiers or civilians? Casualty-aversion versus civilian protection in asymmetric conflicts." Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(1), pp. 153–154
British operations among the people and civilian risk
Debates on military intervention and small wars often include the claim that soldiers should operate among civilians in order to avoid civilian casualties and to protect civilians against third-party violence. This article, by contrast, points at negative unintended consequences of military operations taking place in close proximity to local populations: it argues that also risk-tolerant militaries cause civilian casualties and that their presenc…
Everyday Police Work Abroad
Nowadays, police officers are regularly deployed as members of multilateral peace operations. This article examines how these experts implement their mandates and how we can understand their activities. For this, we draw on a set of 90 semi-structured interviews with European police experts who have experience in multilateral policing. We find that, to navigate their work abroad, European police officers primarily rely on their own domestic polic…
Supporting Democratic Policing in Central Asia
Critics have argued that the provision of support by the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to Central Asian police risks reinforcing authoritarianism. This article examines OSCE police-related activities in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the 2010s, highlighting persistent gaps between the OSCE’s commitment to democratic policing and OSCE practices on the ground. It identifies two institutional mechanisms tha…
Die Demontage der Osze
Russia’s war against Ukraine has caused political collateral damage. One victim is the OSCE. It has lost its ability to act. Moscow uses the OSCE as a platform for propaganda and uses the principle of unanimity to paralyse it. Moscow is blocking the budget, personnel decisions, and events, such as the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The states that are interested in a functioning OSCE and support Ukraine are forced to balance between conf…
Best Practices in Security Sector Reform
International Bureaucracies as Constrained Entrepreneurs
International organizations (IOs) with permanent bureaucracies depend on funding and staff. But what do IO bureaucracies do when governments repeatedly fail to adopt a budget? Building on recent debates on IO resourcing and the role of IO bureaucracies in global policymaking, this article argues that international bureaucracies act entrepreneurially during budget crises but that conflict among states places constraints on entrepreneurialism. We e…
The survival of international organizations
Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works)