Twenty-first-century peace operations

"Peace support operations (PSOs) -- internationally authorized, multilateral, civil-military efforts to promote and protect such transitions from war to peace -- are the subject of this volume, which treats six recent cases -- Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Daytona Accords, Kosovo, East Timor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan -- in some detail. It does so using a common case structure that walks the reader into and through the problems that drive each case and the solutions derived to deal with them. The narrative and analytical focus, however, is specifically on the PSOs deployed in each case, on how they work and why they succeed, fail, drift, or recover"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-618) and index. xxxiii, 651 pages ; 23 cm