Alexandra joined IPI as a Senior Visiting Fellow in July 2017. She works on UN peacekeeping and Security Council related issues with IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations. Dr. Alexandra Novosseloff holds a PhD in political science from the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). Alexandra is also a non-resident fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, research associate at the Centre Thucydide in Paris, and a senior expert at the Peace and Security Section of the Global Governance Institute in Brussels. She is a member of the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations of the University of Montreal (Canada). She is also a photographer interest in post-conflict areas.

Her website is alexandranovosseloff.com / twitter: @DeSachenka

Selected Publications

• Alexandra Novosseloff & al., Assessing the Effectiveness of the UN Missions in the DRC (MONUC-MONUSCO), 2019, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 129 pages.
• “What effect has UN peacekeeping had on the stability of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?” The Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON), podcast 2019.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Improving the military effectiveness and proficiency of peacekeeping operations: a new goal for A4P?“, Challenges Forum Policy Brief, 2019: 2, February 2019, 11 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Lessons Learned from the UN’s Transition in Côte d’Ivoire” (New York: International Peace Institute, December 2018), 28 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “The Many Lives of a Peacekeeping Mission: The UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire” (New York: International Peace Institute, June 2018), 44 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, The UN Military Staff Committee: Recreating a Missing Capacity (New York: Routledge, Global Institutions Series, 2018), 164 pages.
• Arthur Boutellis and Alexandra Novosseloff, «L’an I d’Antonio Guterres: un état de grâce contrarié?» Annuaire français de relations internationales, 2018, volume 17.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “UN Peacekeeping: Back to Basics Is Not Backwards,” Global Observatory 2018.
• Joachim A. Koops/Alexandra Novosseloff, “United Nations Rapid Reaction Mechanisms: Toward a Global Force on Standby?”, Contemporary Security Policy, December 2017.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, «Les opérations de maintien de la paix de l’ONU: Une réforme nécessaire?» Questions internationales, n°88, November-December 2017.
• Arthur Boutellis and Alexandra Novosseloff, “Road to a Better UN? Peace Operations and the Reform Agenda” (New York: International Peace Institute, November 2017), 43 pages.
• Arthur Boutellis and Alexandra Novosseloff, “UN peace operations and Guterres’s reform agenda,” Policy Options, 10 November 2017.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Keeping Peace From Above: Air Assets in UN Peace Operations” (New York: International Peace Institute, October 2017), 36 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, Des ponts entre les hommes, pictures and texts, 2017, éditions du CNRS / Presses des Ponts, Paris.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Can We Make UN Peacekeeping Great Again?“, Global Peace Operations Review, 9 May 2017.
• Sarah Cliffe/Alexandra Novosseloff, “Restructuring the UN Secretariat to strengthen preventative diplomacy and peace operations” (New York: Center on International Cooperation, New York University, February 2017), 64 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff/Thierry Tardy, “UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in Perspective: The Case of France,” in Cedric de Coning/Chiyuki Aoi/John Karlsrud (eds.), UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era: Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats, 2017, Routledge, 344 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “No Caveats, Please?: Breaking a Myth in UN Peace Operations,” Global Peace Operations Review, 12 September 2016.
• Olga Abilova/Alexandra Novosseloff, “Demystifying Intelligence in UN Peace Operations: Toward an Organizational Doctrine,” New York: International Peace Institute, July 2016, 25 pages.
• Jean-Marc de la Sablière/Alexandra Novosseloff, “70^e anniversaire des Nations Unies: les défis du Conseil de sécurité dans les domaines de la paix et de la sécurité,” Annuaire français de relations internationales, 2016, volume 17, pp.745-758.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “La professionnalisation du maintien de la paix ou le travail de Sisyphe,” Global Peace Operations Review, 30 March 2016.
• Alexandra Novosseloff (ed.), Le Conseil de sécurité, entre impuissance et toute puissance, 2016, Paris, éditions CNRS Biblis, 425 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Triangular Cooperation: Key to All,” Global Peace Operations Review, 10 November 2015.
• Frank Neisse/Alexandra Novosseloff, Des murs entre les hommes, pictures and texts, 2015 (Second edition), Paris, La Documentation française, 272 pages.
• Arthur Boutellis/Alexandra Novosseloff, “The Security Council and the Management of a Decade-Long Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire,” in Sebastian von Einsiedel/David M. Malone/Bruno Stagno Ugarte (eds.), The UN Security Council in the 21^st Century, 2015 (second edition), IPI/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 998 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, Chapters on UNIFIL, Expanded UNIFIL and UNOCI, in Joachim A. Koops/Norrie MacQueen/Thierry Tardy/Paul D. Williams (eds.), Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, 2015, Oxford University Press, 944 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Capacités et incapacités militaires du Conseil de sécurité,” Questions internationales, n°73-74, May-August 2015.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Les opérations de maintien de la paix des Nations Unies depuis 1995: état des lieux, progrès et contradictions persistantes,” in Nicolas Haupais / Julian Hernandez (eds.), Mélanges au Professeur Serge Sur, Paris, éditions Pédone, 2014.
• Alexandra Novosseloff / Mélanie Cathelin, “La Brigade d’intervention de la MONUSCO,” Dossiers du ROP, 7 August 2013.
• Richard Gowan/Alexandra Novosseloff, Security Council Working Methods and UN Peace Operations: The Case of Chad and the Central African Republic, 2006-2010, Center on International Cooperation, 2012, New York, 35 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, United Nations – European Union Cooperation in the Field of Peacekeeping: Challenges and Prospects, GGI Analysis Paper No. 4/2012, Global Governance Institute, Brussels, 30 pages.
• Jocelyn Coulon/Alexandra Novosseloff (eds.), La paix par la force? Pour une approche réaliste du maintien de la paix «robuste», 2011, Montréal, éditions Athéna, 224 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Chapitre VII et maintien de la paix : une ambigüité à déconstruire,” Bulletin du maintien de la paix, October 2010, n°100.
• Richard Gowan/Alexandra Novosseloff, “Le renforcement de la Force intérimaire des Nations Unies au Liban: Etude des processus décisionnels au sommet,” Annuaire français de relations internationales, 2010, volume XI, pp. 245-267.
• Alexandra Novosseloff/Paul Quilès, Face aux désordres du monde, 2005, Paris, Les portes du monde, 386 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies et la maîtrise de la force armée – Dialectique du politique et du militaire en matière de paix et de sécurité internationales, 2003, Bruxelles, éditions Bruylant, collection “Organisation internationale et relations internationales,” 660 pages.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “L’ONU après la crise iraquienne,” Politique étrangère, 3-4/2003, pp. 701-714.
• Alexandra Novosseloff, “Les missions spéciales du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies,” Annuaire français de droit international, 2003, pp. 165-175.