The book focuses on peacekeeping as a device for maintaining international stability, and for remedying situations in which states are in conflict with each other. Alan James examines around fifty cases, explaining the background to each one, and analysing its political significance. There is also a detailed examination of the concept of peacemaking, and a look into its increasing importance in international affairs, emphasised by the fact that the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacekeeping activities.
- ISBN10 0312055609
- ISBN13 9780312055608
- Publish Date 1 December 1990 (first published 11 October 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 378
- Language English