A comprehensive text on the history and politics of peacekeeping, primarily in the post-World War Two period but dealing also with pre 1939 precursors. While it will deal principally with operations undertaken by the United Nations, it will also

1. The Dimensions of International Peacekeeping 2. Peacekeeping before the UN: The Inter-War Years 3. Collective Security Revived: The Formation of the United Nations 4. Peacekeeping Resumed: From Palestine and Kashmir to Suez 5. Peacekeeping as Immunization: Regional Crises in the Cold War 6. Peacekeeping and Detente: The Middle East in the 1970s 7. New Horizons: Peacekeeping and the End of the Cold War 8. The Break-Up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union: Peacekeeping and the End of the Multinational State 9. Africa I: Decolonization and Contested Legitimacy 10. Africa II: Peacekeeping in Stateless Terrain 11. Peacekeeping and the International System in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back to Look Forward