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United Nations Interventionism 1991-2004. Edited by Mats Berdal and Spyros Economides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-52154767-9. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi, 303.£32.99.
Analysis of the theory and conduct of peace support operations is now a relevant part of military-oriented publishing. United Nations Interventionism 1991-2004 is a new, interesting contribution and is part of a broader program of the Center of International Studies of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mats Berdal and Spyros Economides are the editors. They share relevant professional experience, including their recent work at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. They gathered scholars, diplomats and experts, with the aim of examining UN action in a more extended historical perspective than in a similar book, to which they contributed and which first appeared in 1996 as The New Interventionism, 1991-1994: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia...