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date: 26 June 2022

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This section examines the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts in the years 1988–98, or after the Cold War. It considers the quantitative and qualitative evolution of UN peacekeeping operations following the end of the paralysis of the UN that had characterised the Cold War period. After providing an overview of the new forms of peacekeeping that emerged in the immediate post-Cold War era, the chapter looks at the growing disillusion about the UN role in crisis management. It then turns to a discussion of the UN’s successes and failures in resolving conflicts in countries such as Namibia, Mozambique, Somalia, Bosnia, Angola, and Rwanda.

Keywords: United Nations, peacekeeping, Cold War, crisis management, Somalia, Bosnia, Angola, Rwanda, Namibia, Mozambique

Joachim A. Koops

Joachim A. Koops is Research Professor and Senior Associate Researcher for European Foreign and Security Policy. He is also the Dean of Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel as well as Course Director of the Executive Course in Global Risk Analysis and Crisis Management and the European Peace and Security Studies (EPSS) Programme.

Norrie MacQueen

Norrie MacQueen is Honorary Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, and Associate Lecturer at the University of Dundee.

Thierry Tardy

Thierry Tardy, European Union Institute for Security Studies

Paul D. Williams

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Security Policy Studies Program at the George Washington University.

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