Table of Contents

Preface Peacekeeping in Crisis Traditional Peacekeeping Roosevelt's Doomed UN Vision The Genesis of Peacekeeping: The UNEF Model From Prototype to Doctrine Peacekeeping Management and Command Iraq and the UN "Renaissance" The Post-Cold War Peacekeeping Train Wreck Expanding Peacekeeping: Theory and Reality Expanded Peacekeeping Fiascoes Assessment and Outlook American Foreign Policy and the Future of Peacekeeping Appendix: UN Peacekeeping Mission Data, 1947-2000 Bibliography

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Unnecessary, avoidable, and predictable, the peacekeeping disasters of the 1990s were the result of world leaders' overeagerness to employ peacekeeping troops for what in fact were belligerent purposes.

About the Author

FREDERICK H. FLEITZ JR. is Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. His previous positions include President of the Board of Directors with the National Collegiate Conference Association, nongovernmental organization representative for the UN, and analyst of United Nations and UN peacekeeping issues for the Central Intelligence Agency. The views expressed in this book are his alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of State, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the U.S. Government.

Reviews

"This splendid analysis of peacekeeping in the '90s illuminates the problems encountered by the United States in its effort to utilize the new tool called "peacekeeping" to achieve traditional military goals...Fred Fleitz has a unique understanding of what can and cannot be done through peacekeeping. He understands its potential and the obstacles to its effectiveness. The United States and the United Nations have much to learn from Fleitz's careful, useful, clearly written study." Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Leavey Professor of Government, Georgetown University