Includes bibliographical references.

The dimensions of international peacekeeping -- Peacekeeping before the UN : the inter-war years -- Collective security revived : the formation of the United Nations -- Peacekeeping resumed : from Palestine and Kashmir to Suez -- Peacekeeping as immunization : regional crises in the Cold War -- Peacekeeping and detente: the Middle East in the 1970s -- New horizons : peacekeeping and the end of the Cold War -- The break-up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union : peacekeeping and the end of the multinational state -- Africa I : decolonization and contested legitimacy -- Africa II : peacekeeping in stateless terrain -- Peacekeeping and the international system in the twenty-first century : looking back to look forward.