Revised edition of: United Nations since 1945: peacekeeping and the Cold War. London : Longman, 1999.

Preface to the Second EditionChronologyUN Operations Established 1948-1995Who's WhoGlossary Part One: Analysis 1 The 'Failure' of the League of Nations and the Beginnings of the UN A new world order? Managing post-war adjustment The breakdown of the collective idea The war-time origins of the UN 2 The United Nations and the Dilemmas of Collective Security International security and the UN Charter Onset of the cold war and the end of the illusion: Korea 3 The (Re)Discovery of Peacekeeping Truce supervision in Palestine Military observation in Kashmir The UN's first peacekeeping 'force': Suez 4 Cold War Peacekeeping Conceptualized Hammarskjold's Summary Study and the 'rules' of peacekeeping Arab Nationalism and the international system: Lebanon and Yemen 5 The Peacekeeping Model Challenged: from the Congo to Cyprus Post-colonial test: the Congo morass The UN in West New Guinea: peace without honour? Peacekeeping within the Cold War Family: Cyprus The legality of peace operations: the article 19 crisis 6 Superpower Detente and Peace Operations in the Middle East Israel, Egypt, Syria and the 1973 war Lebanonin the twilight of Detente 7 The 'Second' Cold War: Peace Suspended? Non-UN peacekeeping in the Middle East Peace operations resume: the Namibia-Angola arrangement 8 The End of the Cold War Opportunityand demand: the new post-cold war world Collective security at last? Operation Desert Storm Boutros-Ghali's Agenda for Peace 9 Peace Operations and the Cold War: a Balance Sheet Peace operations and the status of the United Nations Peace operations and regional stability Peace operations and the state Part Two: Documents 1 The International Force for the Saar: report of the League of Nations Council sub-committee, 12 December 1934. 2 The Covenant of the League of Nations and collective security. 3 From the Atlantic Charter, August 1941. 4 International security and the United Nations Charter. 5 The Soviet Union and the veto: from Andrei Gromyko, Memories (1989). 6 The Unified Command in Korea: US State Department memo, 13 September 1950. 7 The General Assembly Uniting for Peace resolution, 3 November 1950. 8 Inter-war precursors of UN peace operations. 9 Secretary General Trygvie Lie on the Palestine Truce Supervision Organization and the assassination of Count Bernadotte: from In the Cause of Peace (1954). 10 Lester Pearson and the United Nations Emergency Force: from Mike: the Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson (1973). 11 U Thant and the withdrawal of UNEF: from View from the UN (1978). 12 Dag Hammarskjold's 'Summary Study' of Peacekeeping the light of the Suez experience, October 1958. 13 Three Security Council Resolutions on the Congo operation. 14 Exchange of letters between Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba and secretary general Dag Hammarskjold, August 1960. 15 Khrushchev and the 'troika' proposal: address to the General Assembly, 23 September 1960. 16 Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Katanga question: from To Katanga and Back (1963). 17 Hammarskjold and the pressures of office: from Markings (1964). 18 Forming the Cyprus Force: letter from Irish External Affairs Minister Frank Aiken to secretary general U Thant, 13 March 1964. 19 The financing of peace operations: the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, 20 July 1962. 20 Detente and the Middle East -- the American perspective: from Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval (1982). 21 Detente and the Middle East -- the Soviet perspective: from Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1995). 22 Secretary general Kurt Waldheim on the Lebanon force: fromIn the Eye of the Storm (1985). 23 US-UN relations and the end of the operation in Somalia: from Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Unvanquished (1999). 24 Operation Desert Storm: Security Council Resolution 678, 29 November 1990. 25 Secretary general Boutros-Ghali's proposal for peace enforcement units: from An Agenda for Peace (1992). Further Reading References