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

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