Publications

Books 

1. Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri, 2020, Composing Peace: mission composition in UN peacekeeping, Oxford University Press. 

   1. • Short listed, Conflict Research Society best book award

      • Reviewed by: International Peacekeeping

2. Chiara Ruffa, 2018, Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

   1. • European Research Network on Armed Forces and Society’s best book prize (3rd place): https://ergomas.ch/index.php/awards

      • Reviewed by: H-NET; International Peacekeeping; Parameters; Peace and Change; Air and Space Power Journal. 

Edited special issues

1. Nicole Jenne, Christoph Harig, Chiara Ruffa, Military organisations in a changing world: how new operational experiences shape civil-military relations, European Journal of International Security, 2022

2. Chiara Ruffa, 2013, Guest editor of the Special Issue "Explaining Coordination and Breakdown in Complex Operations", Small Wars and Insurgencies 24(2):203–372. 

3. Amy Verdun and Chiara Ruffa, 2011, Guest editor of the Special Issue, "South East and Eastern European Countries EU Accession Quandary?", Comparative European Politics 9(3–4):367–595. 

Peer-reviewed articles

1. Ruffa, Chiara (2024). Challenges and Strategies for the Reflexive Researcher Studying Elite Organizations. Qualitative and Multi-method Research, 22(1), 23–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11506790

2. Simone Tholens & Chiara Ruffa (2023) The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices, Mediterranean Politics, DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2023.2183662

3. Dietrich, Nick, Kristine Eck, & Chiara Ruffa (2023). How governance shaped military responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. European Political Science Review, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S1755773923000024

4. Ruffa, Chiara, & Bas Rietjens (2023). Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali. European Journal of International Relations, 29(1): 53-78

5. Eck, Kristine and Chiara Ruffa. (2023). “Military Training and Decolonization in the British Empire.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51(1): 156-181.

6. Nicole Jenne, Christoph Harig and Chiara Ruffa, 2022, “Introduction to special issue”, European Journal of International Security, 7(1): 1-17.

7. Christoph Harig and Chiara Ruffa, “2022, Unpacking pulling: operational vs political pulling, role conceptions and drivers of the military’s reaction”,, European Journal of International Security, 7(1): 84-103.

8. Chiara Ruffa and Matt Evangelista, 2021, “Searching for a Middle Ground? A spectrum of views on causality in qualitative research”. Italian Review of Political Science, 51(2): 164-181.

9. Ralph Sundberg and Chiara Ruffa, 2021, “The determinants of cohesion in state militaries”. Military Psychology, 2021, 33(2): 1-12.

10. Johansson, Walter Lotze, Chiara Ruffa, Amelia Hoover Green, Ann Kristin Sjöberg, and Roudabeh Kishi, 2020, “Peacekeeping Prevention: Strengthening Efforts to Pre-empt Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.” International Peacekeeping 27 (4): 517–85.

11. Vincenzo Bove, Mauricio Rivera and Chiara Ruffa, 2020, “Terrorist Violence and Nonviolent Military Involvement in Politics”, European Journal of International Relations, 26(1): 263-288.

12. Chiara Ruffa and Bas Rietjens, 2019, “Understanding coherence in peacekeeping operations”, International Peacekeeping 26(4):383–407. 

13. Chiara Ruffa, 2018, “Enjeux et defis en perspective comparée”, Les Champs de Mars 30:79-87. 

14. Chiara Ruffa and Ralph Sundberg, 2018, “Breaking the frame: frame disputes of war and peace”, Acta Sociologica 61(3):317–332. 

15. Chiara Ruffa, 2017, “Military cultures and force employment in peace operations”, Security Studies 26(3):391–422. 

16. Chiara Ruffa and Pascal Vennesson, 2014, “Fighting and Helping? The Domestic Politics of NGO-Military Relations in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies”, Security Studies 23(3):582–621. 

17. Chiara Ruffa, 2014, “What Peacekeepers Think and Do: An Exploratory Study of French, Ghanaian, Italian, and South Korean Armies in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon”, Armed Forces & Society 40(2):199–225. 

18. Chiara Ruffa, 2014, “Societal beliefs about the use of force in Israel, Italy and France”, The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, 35(2):101–117. 

19. Chiara Ruffa, 2013, “The long and winding road... to success? Unit Peace Operation Effectiveness (UPOE) and the success of the NATO mission in Afghanistan”, Defense and Security Analysis 29(2):128–140. 

20. Chiara Ruffa, Christopher Dandeker and Pascal Vennesson, 2013, “Soldiers drawn into politics? The influence of tactics in civil–military relations”, Small Wars and Insurgencies 24(2):322–334.

21. Chiara Ruffa, 2013, “Introduction: Coordinating actors in complex operations”, Small Wars and Insurgencies 24(2):206–210. 

22. Chiara Ruffa, 2011, “Realist-Normative power Europe? Explaining the EU policies towards Lebanon from an IR perspective”, Comparative European Politics 9(5):562–580. 

23. Amy Verdun, Chiara Ruffa and Gabriella Chira, 2011, "Introduction: South East and Eastern European countries EU accession quandary?", Comparative European Politics 9(4):367–371. 

Invited book reviews

1. Chiara Ruffa, 2019, “Book review of Austin Long’s The Soul of Armies (2015) Ithaca, Cornell University Press”, Perspectives on Politics 17(3):946–948. https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759271900210X.

2. Chiara Ruffa, “Book review of Cornelius Friesendorf’s How Western Soldiers Fight (2018), Cambridge University Press", International Studies Review. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/6067554/ruffa-howard-power-peacekeeping

3. Chiara Ruffa, “Book review of Lise Howard’s The Power of Peacekeeping, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press”, commissioned by H-Diplo. https://networks.h- net.org/node/28443/reviews/6067554/ruffa-howard-power-peacekeeping.

Book chapters

1. Ruffa, Chiara, and Chiara Tulp, 'Strange Encounters? Contemporary Field Researchers and Six Lessons from Jane Addams', in Patricia M. Shields, Maurice Hamington, and Joseph Soeters (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams (online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Feb. 2022), https://doi-org.proxy.annalindhbiblioteket.se/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544518.013.17, accessed 13 Oct. 2022.

2. Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri, “On mission composition”, Handbook on peacekeeping operations, edited by Han Dorussen, forthcoming.

3. Chiara Ruffa. “Militarization in established democracies? The case of France”. Security Threats, Militarization and Democratic Control of the Military, edited by Yagil Levy and David Kühn, New York: Lynne Rienner, 2021, 139-160.

4. Sofia Ledberg and Chiara Ruffa. “On Military Families”. Handbook of Military Science, edited by Anders Sookermany, Springer, 2020, https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02866-4, 35-1.

5. Chiara Ruffa. “Military culture and the challenge of ambidexterity in complex operations”. The Yin Yang Military. Ambidextrous Perspectives on Change in Military Organizations. Writings in honor of Joe Soeters, edited by Jacqueline Heeren-Bogers, Rene Moelker, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Jan van der Meulen, Sjo Soeters, and Robert Beeres, Springer, 2020, 101-109.

6. Chiara Ruffa. “Case study methods: Case Selection and Case Analysis”. The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science & IR, edited by Luigi Curini & Rob Franzese, 2020, 1133-1148.

7. Chiara Ruffa, 2019, Designing and conducting the comparative case study method. SAGE Research Methods Cases. 

8. Chiara Ruffa, Bas Rietjens and Emma Nygren, 2020, “Resilience and Conflict Resolution: UN Peacekeeping in Mali”, in Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean, edited by Eugenio Cusumano and Stefan Hofmaier, 189–203, London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030236403.

9. Chiara Ruffa, 2016, “'Just deploy and always call it peacekeeping!' Italian strategic culture and international military operations”, in European Participation in International Operations: The role of Strategic Culture, edited by Malena Britz, 101–122, Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319397580.

10. Chiara Ruffa, 2016, "Peacekeeping Operations", in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, edited by Domonic A. Bearfield, Evan M Berman and Melvin J. Dubnick,  2362–2369, New York: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351265362.

11. Chiara Ruffa, 2015, "Cohesion, political motivation and military performance in the Italian Alpini" in Frontline: Combat and Cohesion in Iraq and Afghanistan, edited by Anthony King, 250–265, Oxford University Press. https://10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719663.003.0012.

12. Clara Portela and Chiara Ruffa, 2015, "The Politics of Coercion: Assessing the EU's Use of Military and Economic Instruments", in The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy, edited by Knud Erik Jorgensen, Aasne Kalland Aarstad, Edith Drieskens, Katie Laatikainen and Ben Tonra, 545–558, SAGE Publishing. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-european-foreign-policy/book241829.

13. Giampiero Giacomello and Chiara Ruffa, 2014, "Small Navies and Border and Immigration Control: Frontex Operations in the Mediterranean", in Small Navies: Strategy and Policy for Small Navies in War and Peace, edited by Michael Mulqueen, Deborah Sanders and Ian Speller, 133–150, Farnham: Ashgate. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/small-navies-strategy-and-policy-for-small-navies-in-war-and-peace(318875cf-5950-4197-b87b-54d37b22461d).html.

14. Chiara Ruffa and Joseph Soeters, 2014, "Cross-national research in the military: comparing operational styles in peace missions", in Routledge Handbook on Research Methods in Military Studies, edited by Joseph Soeters, Patricia Shields and Sebastiaan Rietjens, 216–227, London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Research-Methods-in-Military-Studies/Soeters-Shields-Rietjens/p/book/9780415635332.

15. Chiara Ruffa, 2013, "The Swedish Strategic Culture", in Strategic Cultures in Europe, edited by Bastian Giegerich, Heiko Biehl and Alexandra Jonas, 343–357, Vienna: VS Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658011673.

16. Chiara Ruffa, Christopher Dandeker and Pascal Vennesson, 2013, "Soldiers drawn into politics? Civil-military Relations, hybrid military spaces and the future of intervention", in The Armed Forces: Towards a Post-Interventionist Era?, edited by Gerhard Kuemmel and Bastian Giegerich, 29–40, Frankfurt: VS Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658012854.

17. Chiara Ruffa, 2012, "What kind of leadership for what kind of operations? Assessing 'Mission Command' in Peace Operations and Counterinsurgency", in Leadership in Challenging Operations, edited by Peter Haas, Franz Kernic, and Andrea Plaschke, 183–194, Vienna: Peter Lang Publisher. https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783653019117/9783653019117.00011.xml.

18. Chiara Ruffa 2010, "With or without you? A comparison of EU, European and US policies in Afghanistan", in Issues in EU and US foreign policy, edited by Münevver Cebeci, 67–90, Lanham: Lexington Books. https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/50373167.

Policy writing

1. Chiara Ruffa and Yagil Levy, “The Shifting State of French Civil-Military Relations”, 23 June 2021, https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2021/06/23/the-shifting-state-of-french-civil-military-relations/

2. Karin Johansson, Walter Lotze, Chiara Ruffa, Amelia Hoover Green, Ann Kristin Sjöberg, and Roudabeh Kishi. 16 February 2021. New Perspectives on Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, https://theglobalobservatory.org/2021/02/new-perspectives-on-preventing-conflict-related-sexual-violence/

3. Chiara Ruffa and Annick Wibben, “Initiation Rituals within the military: time for a change”, Political Violence at a Glance, 6 January 2021, https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2021/01/06/initiation-rituals-within-the-military-time-for-a-change/

4. Daria Finocchiaro, Federica Romei, Chiara Ruffa, "Il modello svedese spiegato da tre esperte con le sue peculiarità e i suoi sbagli", Il Foglio, 16 April 2020, https://www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2020/04/16/news/il-modello-svedese-spiegato-da-tre-esperte-con-le-sue-peculiarita-e-i-suoi-sbagli-313244.

5. Chiara Ruffa and Kristine Eck, “In a Pandemic, Should the Experts or the Politicians Be In Charge?”, Political Violence at a Glance, April 2020, http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/04/01/in-a-pandemic-should-the-experts-or-the-politicians-be-in-charge/.

6. Daria Finocchiaro, Federica Romei, Chiara Ruffa, "Il modello svedese spiegato da tre esperte con le sue peculiarità e i suoi sbagli", Il Foglio, 16 April 2020, https://www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2020/04/16/news/il-modello-svedese-spiegato-da-tre-esperte-con-le-sue-peculiarita-e-i-suoi-sbagli-313244.

7. Chiara Ruffa. “Migrants, Abandoned”. Political Violence at a Glance, March 2020, http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/03/17/migrants-abandoned/.

8. Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri. “Parlare di “modello Libano” in Libia è dannoso oltreché impossibile”. Il Foglio, 15 January 2020, (translation: Talking about a Lebanon model for Libya is dangerous as well as impossible) https://www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2020/01/15/news/parlare-di-modello-libano-in-libia-e-dannoso-oltreche-impossibile-296550/?underPaywall=true.

9. Vincenzo Bove, Mauricio Rivera and Chiara Ruffa, 2019, "Terrorism boosts military involvement in politics (and why it matters for democracy)", Political Violence at a Glance (blog), 14 October 2019. http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2019/10/14/terrorism-boosts-military-involvement-in-politics-and-why-it-matters-for-democracy/. 

10. Chiara Ruffa, 2018, “Making Efforts to Improve UN peacekeeping”, Political Violence at a Glance (blog), 25 July 2018. http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2018/07/25/making-efforts-to-improve-un-peacekeeping/.

11. Chiara Ruffa, 2018, “Doing Fieldwork in Difficult Situations”, The Penn Press Log (blog), 28 August 2018. http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2018/08/doing-fieldwork-in-difficult-situations.html. 

12. Chiara Ruffa, 2014, "A la recherche d'une identité 'post-neutre': Transformation des armées et des relations civilo-militaires en Suède", in Dossier stratégique Transformations militaires et perception des armées en Allemagne, Belgique, Pologne et Suède, edited by Barbara Jankowski, 10–12. http://www.defense.gouv.fr/irsem/publications/lettre-de-l-irsem/la-lettre-de-l-irsem. 

13. Chiara Ruffa, 2012, "Afghan War Lesson", The Diplomat, 7 March 2012. https://thediplomat.com/2012/03/afghan-war-lessons/.

14. Chiara Ruffa, 2012, "Comments on Afghan Koran burning", Power & Policy (blog) , 29 February 2012. http://www.powerandpolicy.com/2012/02/29/scholars-reflect-on-afghan-koran-burnings-rioting/.

15. Chiara Ruffa and Rosa Raffaelli, 2011, "Enough Machismo Italian Style", The New York Times, 18 February 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/opinion/19iht-edruffa19.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

Reports 

Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri. “Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping”, background paper, Challenges Forum on UN Peace Operations, 2020, https://www.challengesforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Background-Paper-Challenges-Forum-Webinar-on-Diversity-in-Peacekeeping.pdf

Chiara Ruffa. “Between domestic and international threats”, selected to represent a group of excellent young researchers, for the “Relève stratégique”. Report to the French President of the Republic in preparation, 2017.

Chiara Ruffa and Natalino Ronzitti. “L´Italia nelle missioni internazionali: problematiche operative e giuridiche” (translation: Italy in international expeditionary operations: operational and judicial challenges). Report to the Italian Parliament, 2014.

Chiara Ruffa. “Back to the Ground: a Few Thoughts on How the Comprehensive Approach Could be Improved”. NATO report, Human Factor and Medicine Panel, Science and Technology, NATO, 2014, pp.1-28,  http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/PubFullText/RTO/MP/STO-MP-HFM-236/P03%20RUFFA%20Manuscript.doc.

Podcasts

Interview on Canadian podcast Battle Rhythm, episode 12, Forever wars: resilience and readiness, https://soundcloud.com/battle-rhythm/episode-12-forever-wars-resilience-and-readiness (2019)

Interview about my military culture book on Military History Inside Out, https://player.fm/series/military-history-inside-out/modern-warfare-history-book-military-cultures-in-peace-and-stability-operations-university-of-pennsylvania-press-2018-chiara-ruffa-interview-mhio-episode-20 (2018)