1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Abbreviations

      5  Acknowledgements

      6  Introduction Peacekeeping in global politics Enduring themes Structure of the book

      7  Part I Concepts and Issues 1 Peace Operations in Global Politics 1.1 Westphalian and post-Westphalian order 1.2 Theorizing peace operations in global politics 1.3 The impacts of peace operations on armed conflict Conclusion 2 Who Deploys Peace Operations? 2.1 The universe of modern peace operations 2.2 States as peacekeepers 2.3 International organizations as peacekeepers 2.4 United Nations peace operations 2.5 Partnership peacekeeping Conclusion

      8  Part II Historical Development 3 Peace Operations during the Cold War 3.1 United Nations peace operations during the Cold War 3.2 Non-UN peace operations during the Cold War Conclusion 4 Peace Operations during the 1990s 4.1 The transformation of peace operations 4.2 The nature of the transformation 4.3 Failures and retreat 4.4 Lessons learned? Conclusion 5 Peace Operations in the Twenty-First Century 5.1 Peacekeeping reborn: 1999–2002 5.2 The Brahimi Report 5.3 Peace operations after the Brahimi Report 5.4 The rise of stabilization Conclusion

      9  Part III The Purposes of Peace Operations 6 Prevention 6.1 Preventing violent conflict and preventive deployments 6.2 Preventive deployments in practice 6.3 The politics of preventive deployment Conclusion 7 Observation 7.1 From observation to traditional peacekeeping 7.2 Observation in practice 7.3 Problems 8 Assistance 8.1 Assisting war-to-peace transitions 8.2 Assistance in practice 8.3 Key challenges 9 Enforcement 9.1 What is peace enforcement? 9.2 Peace enforcement in practice 9.3 Key challenges 10 Stabilization 10.1 Stabilization in theory 10.2 Stabilization in practice 10.3 Key challenges for stabilization 11 Administration 11.1 Transitional administrations in theory 11.2 Transitional administrations in practice 11.3 Key challenges

      10  Part IV Contemporary Challenges 12 Force Generation 12.1 The force-generation process 12.2 Why do states provide peacekeepers? Conclusion 13 Regionalization 13.1 Regionalization and trends in peace operations 13.2 The strengths and weaknesses