Aspects of peacekeeping / edited by D.S. Gordon and F.H. Toase.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. The United Nations and the international system : evolution and change. The humanitarian security dilemma in international peacekeeping / Shashi Tharoor and Ian Johnstone -- Icarus rising and falling : the evolution of UN command and control structures / Stuart Gordon -- European approaches to peacekeeping : the muddled legacy of the Yugoslav wars / Rosemary Durward -- Bilateral and multilateral peacekeeping units in Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Latawski -- Regional initiatives and non-UN forms of intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa / Edmund Yorke -- Section II. Humanitarian action and peacekeeping. 'Those who have the power to hurt but would do none' : the military and the humanitarian / Jim Whitman -- The evolution of UN humanitarian operations / Sergio Vieira de Mello -- Positioning humanitarianism in war : principles of neutrality, impartiality and solidarity / Hugo Slim -- Understanding, promoting and evaluating coordination : an outline framework / Koenraad Van Brabant -- Armed protection for humanitarian action : what are the questions? / Koenraad Van Brabant -- Section III. Peace-support operations and the military. The legitimation of strategic peacekeeping : military culture, the defining moment / James Gow and Christopher Dandeker -- British peacekeeping doctrine : a critique / Richard Connaughton -- A recipe for making safe areas unsafe / Stuart Gordon -- Civil affairs : soldiers building bridges / Edward Flint -- Warlordism, complex emergencies and the search for a doctrine of humanitarian intervention / Paul B. Rich.