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Number of items: 58.
International Development
  • Keen, David (2025). Response to Rochelle Terman’s review of Shame: the politics and power of an emotion. Perspectives on Politics, 23(1), 353 - 354. https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759272400241x
  • Keen, David (2025). The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires. By Rochelle Terman. Princeton University Press, 2023. 216p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 23(1), 354 - 356. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592724002408
  • Keen, David (2024). When disasters come home: making and manipulating emergencies in the West. Polity Press.
  • Keen, David (15 March 2024) Professor David Keen on Wreckonomics, Shame and When disasters come home. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Andersson, Ruben, Keen, David (2023). Wreckonomics: why it's time to end the war on everything. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197645925.001.0001
  • Keen, David (2023). Shame: the politics and power of an emotion. Princeton University Press.
  • Keen, David (2021). Does democracy protect? The United Kingdom, the United States, and Covid-19. Disasters, 45(S1), S26 - S47. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12527 picture_as_pdf
  • Keen, David (2021). The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France. International Migration, 59(3), 9 - 28. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12800 picture_as_pdf
  • Keen, David (2020). Algorithm blues. Development and Change, 51(4), 1146-1159. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12608 picture_as_pdf
  • Keen, David, Andersson, Ruben (2018). Double games: success, failure and the relocation of risk in fighting terror, drugs and migration. Political Geography, 67, 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.09.008 picture_as_pdf
  • Keen, David (2014). The camp and the lesser evil: humanitarianism in Sri Lanka. Conflict, Security and Development, 14(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2013.856176
  • Keen, David (2013). When ‘Do No Harm’ Hurts.
  • Keen, David (2012). Greed and grievance in civil war. International Affairs, 88(4), 757-777.
  • Keen, David (2012). Useful enemies: when waging wars is more important than winning them. Yale University Press.
  • Keen, David (2012). Peace as an incentive for war. In Curtis, Devon, Dzinesa, Gwinyayi A. (Eds.), Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa (pp. 31-46). Ohio University Press ; Swallow Press.
  • Berdal, Mats, Keen, David (2011). The political economy of protectorates and 'post-conflict' intervention. In Mayall, James, Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo (Eds.), The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States (pp. 221-240). Hurst Publishers (London, England).
  • Keen, David, Lee, Vivian (2009). Civilian status and the new security agendas. In Collinson, Sarah, Darcy, James, Waddell, Nicholas, Schmidt, Anna (Eds.), Realising Protection: the Uncertain Benefits of Civilian, Refugee and IDP Status (pp. 11-20). Overseas Development Institute.
  • Keen, David (2009). Compromise or capitulation? Report on WFP and the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. In Humanitarian assistance in conflict and complex emergencies: conference report and background papers (pp. 49-102). United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
  • Keen, David (2009). A tale of two wars: great expectations, hard times. Conflict, Security and Development, 9(4), 515-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800903345804
  • Keen, David (2008). Benefits of famine: a political economy of famine and relief in southwestern Sudan, 1983-9. James Currey (Firm).
  • Keen, David (2008). حرب بلا نهاية. Obeikan Publishing.
  • Keen, David (2008). Complex emergencies. Polity Press.
  • Keen, David, Lee, Vivian (2007). Conflict, trade and the medium-term future of food security in Sudan. Disasters, 31(supp.1), S9-S24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.00346.x
  • Adebajo, Adekeye, Keen, David (2007). Sierra Leone. In Berdal, Mats, Economides, Spyros (Eds.), United Nations Interventionism, 1991–2004 (pp. 246-273). Cambridge University Press.
  • Keen, David (2006). War without end? Magic, propaganda and the hidden functions of counter-terror. Journal of International Development, 18(1), 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1264
  • Keen, David (2006). Endless war? Hidden functions of the "War on Terror". Pluto Press.
  • Keen, David (2005). Liberalization and conflict. International Political Science Review, 26(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512105047897
  • Keen, David (2005). The economic functions of violence in civil wars. Routledge.
  • Keen, David (2003). Demobilising Guatemala. (Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1 37). Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Keen, David (2003). Greedy elites, dwindling resources, alienated youths: the anatomy of protracted violence in Sierra Leone. Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, 2003(3), 67-94.
  • Keen, David (2002). “Since I am a dog, beware my fangs”: beyond a ‘rational violence’ framework in the Sierra Leonean war. (Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 1 14). Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Keen, David (2001). War and peace what's the difference? In Adebajo, Adekeye, Sriram, Chandra Lekha (Eds.), Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century (pp. 1 - 22). Frank Cass & Co..
  • Keen, David (2001). The political economy of war. In Stewart, Frances, Fitzgerald, Valpy (Eds.), War and Underdevelopment. Vol.1, The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict (pp. 39-66). Oxford University Press.
  • Keen, David (2000). Going to war: how rational is it? In Carbonnier, Gilles, Fleming, Sarah (Eds.), War, Money and Survival . International Committee of the Red Cross.
  • Keen, David (2000). Incentives and disincentives for violence. In Berdal, Mats, Malone, David M. (Eds.), Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (pp. 19-42). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
  • Keen, David (2000). Sierra Leone: war and its functions. In Stewart, Frances, Fitzgerald, Valpy (Eds.), War and Underdevelopment. Vol.2, Country Experiences (pp. 155-175). Oxford University Press.
  • Keen, David (2000). Sudan: conflict and rationality. In Stewart, Frances, Fitzgerald, Valpy (Eds.), War and Underdevelopment. Vol.2, Country Experiences (pp. 220-239). Oxford University Press.
  • Keen, David (2000). War and peace what's the difference? International Peacekeeping, 7(4), 1 - 22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310008413860
  • Keen, David (2000). War, crime and access to resources. In Nafziger, E. Wayne, Stewart, Frances, Väyrynen, Raimo (Eds.), War, Hunger and Displacement: the Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies, Volume 1 (pp. 283-304). Oxford University Press.
  • Keen, David (1999). "Who's it between?" "Ethnic war" and "rational violence". In Allen, Tim, Seaton, Jean (Eds.), The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence (pp. 81-101). Zed Books.
  • Keen, David (1998). Aid and violence, with special reference to Sierra Leone. Disasters, 22(4), 318-327. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7717.00095
  • Keen, David (1998). The economic functions of violence in civil wars (special issue). Adelphi Papers, 38(320), 1-89.
  • Berdal, Mats, Keen, David (1997). Violence and economic agendas in civil wars: some policy implications. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 26(3), 795-818. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298970260030401
  • Keen, David, Ryle, John (1997). Editorial: The fate of information in the disaster zone. Disasters, 20(3), 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1996.tb01031.x
  • Keen, David (1997). A rational kind of madness. Oxford Development Studies, 25(1), 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600819708424122
  • Keen, David (1996). War what is it good for? Contemporary Politics, 2(1), 23 - 36. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.1996.10382948
  • Keen, David (1996). War: what is it good for? In Allen, Tim, Hudson, Kate, Seaton, Jean (Eds.), War, Ethnicity and the Media . South Bank University. School of Education, Politics and Social Science.
  • Keen, David (1995). Short-term interventions and long-term problems: the case of the Kurds in Iraq. In Harriss, John (Ed.), The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention . Pinter (Firm).
  • Keen, David, Wilson, Ken (1994). Engaging with violence: a reassessment of relief in wartime. In Macrae, Joanna, Zwi, Anthony B. (Eds.), War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies . Zed Books in association with Save the Children Fund (UK).
  • Keen, David (1994). The benefits of famine: a political economy of famine and relief in southwestern Sudan, 1983-1989. Princeton University Press.
  • Keen, David (1994). The functions of famine in Southwestern Sudan: implications for relief. In Macrae, Joanna, Zwi, Anthony B. (Eds.), War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies . Zed Books in association with Save the Children Fund (UK).
  • Keen, David (1993). Kurds in Iraq: how safe is their haven now? Save the Children Fund (Great Britain).
  • Keen, David (1993). NGOs and evaluation: image or impact. Universitetet i Bergen.
  • Keen, David (1992). Refugees: rationing the right to life: the crisis in emergency relief. Zed Books.
  • Keen, David (1991). A disaster for whom? Local interests and international donors during famine among the Dinka of Sudan. Disasters, 15(2), 150-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1991.tb00444.x
  • Keen, David (1991). Targeting emergency food aid: the case of Darfur in 1985. In Maxwell, Simon (Ed.), To Cure All Hunger: Food Policy and Food Security in Sudan . Practical Action (Organization).
  • Cutler, Peter, Keen, David (1989). Evaluation of EEC emergency, rehabilitation and food aid to Sudan: 1985-88. Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England).
    • International Relations
  • Keen, David (2005). Conflict and collusion in Sierra Leone. James Currey (Firm).