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Repr. XVI, 430 p. : ill., krt. ; 24 cm.

V, 215 p. : tab., grafn. ; 26 cm.

Met lit. opg., reg. x, 421 p. : ill., krt. ; 24 cm.

"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 ...

This revised edition discusses the United States' interventions in Haiti and Bosnia, the 1998 crisis (and earlier skirmishes) with Iraq, and the decision to not intervene to halt apparent genocide in Central Africa. In the core original study, which draws upon 12 cases - including Somalia, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, and the Gulf War - Richard Haass suggests political and military guidelines for potential ...

Documents the achievements of Britain's Special Operations Executives and the United States Office of Strategic Services in World War II, as culled from interviews, diaries, letters, and first-person accounts, citing their works against the Gestapo and in such areas as the Balkans, the Burmese jungle, and Japan. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index. xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Lit. opg.: p. 226-237.-Index. 247 p. ; 24 cm

"Somalia" has become a symbol for the unacceptable costs of humanitarian intervention, for the type of foreign involvement that should be avoided. But the authors of this timely book, themselves key participants in the U.S.-led operation there, argue that substantial good was done--the tide of famine was stayed, hundreds of thousands of lives saved, and steps toward political reconciliation begun. ...