UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts

Assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, the author focuses on such questions as: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold War? What are the factors that have determined the success, or failure, of the missions? And does the mandating of so many peacekeeping missions signify the failure of Africa's regional security organizations?