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Bibliography on Peacekeeping
and other Peace Operations

This listing is by no means exhaustive, and is intended to give a general idea of the materials available on the topic.

Dennis C. Jett
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Houndmills/London: MacMillan Press, 2000

Ingrid A. Lehmann
Peacekeeping and Public Information. Caught in the Crossfire
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999

Kofi A. Annan
"Peace Operations and the United Nations: Preparing for the Next Century"
New York: United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations, 1996

Rene-Jean Dupuy
The Development of the Role of the Security Council. Peace-keeping and Peace-building
Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1993, X-VIII

Jarat Chopra (ed.)
Special issue on Peace-Maintenance Operations
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Volume 4, Number 1, January-March 1998
Also published in book form: The Politics of Peace-Maintenance, Boulder; London: Rienner, 1998

Cindy Collins and Thomas G. Weiss
An Overview and Assessment of 1989-1996 Peace Operations Publications
Providence RI: Watson Institute Occasional Paper no. 28

Gunnar Fermann
Bibliography on international peacekeeping
Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1992

Stephen M. Hill
Peacekeeping and the United Nations
Aldershot; Brookfield, USA: Dartmouth, 1996

International Peacekeeping
London, 1994--
Quarterly journal published by Frank Cass Publishers

Winrich Kühne (ed.)
Winning the Peace: Concept and Lessons Learned of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Ebenhausen: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 1996

Anthony McDermott
United Nations Financing Problems and the New Generation of Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
Providence, RI: Watson Insitute Occasional Paper No. 16

Terry M. Mays
Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping
International Organizations Series no. 9
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996

Susan R. Mills
The Financing of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: the need for a sound financial basis
New York: International Peace Academy Occasional Papers, 1989

Peacekeeping and International Relations
Ottawa, 1991--
Bimonthly journal published in cooperation with the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies.

Michael Pugh (ed.)
The UN, peace, and force
London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997

Michael Renner
Remaking U.N. Peacekeeping: U.S. Policy and Real Reform
Washington: National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, 1995

United Nations Department of Public Information
Teaching about peace-keeping and peacemaking
(Documentation accompanies a video (sold separately) about peace-keeping operations)
New York: United Nations, 1993

Ramesh Chandra Thakur
A crisis of expectations: UN peacekeeping in the 1990s
Boulder: Westview Press, 1995

Brian Urquhart
"For a UN Volunteer Force"
New York Review of Books, June 10, 1993

Brian Urquhart
"Who Can Police the World?"
New York Review of Books, May 12, 1994

Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies
Peace Operations Resource Site
A great new site with several resource tools, including a bibliographic database, sample syllabi, relevant journals and related web sites.

Agostinho Zacarias
The United Nations and international peacekeeping
London; New York: I.B. Tauris; distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's, 1996

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