Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. officials have been more willing to remind allies that the United States will not play the role of international policeman.

Peacekeeping has been the technique most frequently used by, and associated with, the United Nations to end conflicts and to preserve peace. In addition, intern

No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories? At the beginning of the 1990s, the w

The book focuses on peacekeeping as a device for maintaining international stability, and for remedying situations in which states are in conflict with each oth

This volume deals with women's participation in international peacekeeping operations and what those operations might consider to be the role and circumstances