This book provides a comprehensive analysis of peacekeeping in Africa and aims to present and analyse the various evolutions and challenges that peacekeeping operations face on the African continent.

Thierry Tardy is a Senior Analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. He is the editor of European Security in a Global Context (2009) and Peace Operations after 11 September 2001 (2004).

Marco Wyss is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Chichester, UK. He is the author of Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain's Role in the Cold War (2013) and Un Suisse au Service de la SS (2010).

Introduction: Africa: The Peacekeeping Laboratory, Thierry Tardy and Marco Wyss 1. Changing Dimensions of International Peacekeeping in Africa, Megan Gleason-Roberts and Alischa Kugel 2. An Evolving Model of African-led Peace Support Operations? Lessons from Burundi, Sudan (Darfur) and Somalia, Jide Martyns Okeke 3. EU Peacekeeping in Africa: Towards an Indirect Approach, Alexander Mattelaer and Esther Marijnen 4. Whose Money Funds African Peace Operations? Negotiating Influence and Autonomy with External Partners, David Ambrosetti and Romain Esmenjaud 5. China's Peacekeeping Efforts in Africa: Assessing the Contributions, Future Prospects, and Challenges, Ian Taylor 6. Indian Peacekeeping and the Performance of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zachariah Mampilly 7. Primus inter Pares? France and Multi-Actor Peacekeeping in Côte d'Ivoire, Marco Wyss 8. When the Neighbours Keep a Foot in the Door: Regional Interventions and Peacekeeping Missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, Judith Vorrath 9. The Long Path to MINUSMA: Assessing the International Response to the Crisis in Mali, Lori-Anne Théroux-Bénoni 10. The Democratic Republic of Congo: A Laboratory for International Peace Operations, Meike Froitzheim 11. The Perils of Peacekeeping as a Tool of RtoP: The Case of Darfur, David Lanz 12. The Dilemmas of State Consent in United Nations Peace Operations: The Case of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire, Giulia Piccolino Conclusion, Karen A. Mingst