Jonathan Fisher is Professor of Global Security at the University of Birmingham and was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 2019-2020. Co-Editor of Civil Wars since 2017, he is the author of East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s (2020). His research focuses on the relationships between authoritarianism and (in)security. Nina Wilén is Director of the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University. She is the author of Justifying Interventions: (De)Stabilising Sovereignty (2012) and Editor-in Chief of International Peacekeeping. Her research focuses on peacekeeping, military interventions and gender.

'This perceptive and innovative account provides vital insights into an important and under-researched aspect of peacekeeping: why and how African states became hosts of peacekeeping missions and at the same time providers of peacekeepers. In short, what has peacekeeping meant for the continent broadly speaking? With their deep understanding of peacekeeping, African politics and history, Fisher and Wilén are perfectly positioned to answer this question. They have crafted a book that is essential reading for anyone who is interested in contemporary peacekeeping, especially those who want to go to a deeper level than narrowly understand the impact of missions as they deploy.' Peter Albrecht, Danish Institute for International Studies

• Introduction; 1. The (pre-) history and evolution of African peacekeeping; 2. New means of staying in power: regime maintenance through peacekeeping; 3. From the local to the global: the connection between the domestic and the international; 4. Constructing a new identity as a peacekeeper; 5. From peacekept to peacekeeper: post-conflict peacekeeping; 6. What is 'African' about African peacekeeping?; Conclusion.

Jonathan Fisher is Professor of Global Security at the University of Birmingham and was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 2019-2020. Co-Editor of Civil Wars since 2017, he is the author of East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s (2020). His research focuses on the relationships between authoritarianism and (in)security. Nina Wilén is Director of the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University. She is the author of Justifying Interventions: (De)Stabilising Sovereignty (2012) and Editor-in Chief of International Peacekeeping. Her research focuses on peacekeeping, military interventions and gender.

'This perceptive and innovative account provides vital insights into an important and under-researched aspect of peacekeeping: why and how African states became hosts of peacekeeping missions and at the same time providers of peacekeepers. In short, what has peacekeeping meant for the continent broadly speaking? With their deep understanding of peacekeeping, African politics and history, Fisher and Wilén are perfectly positioned to answer this question. They have crafted a book that is essential reading for anyone who is interested in contemporary peacekeeping, especially those who want to go to a deeper level than narrowly understand the impact of missions as they deploy.' Peter Albrecht, Danish Institute for International Studies

• Introduction; 1. The (pre-) history and evolution of African peacekeeping; 2. New means of staying in power: regime maintenance through peacekeeping; 3. From the local to the global: the connection between the domestic and the international; 4. Constructing a new identity as a peacekeeper; 5. From peacekept to peacekeeper: post-conflict peacekeeping; 6. What is 'African' about African peacekeeping?; Conclusion.

Jonathan Fisher is Professor of Global Security at the University of Birmingham and was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 2019-2020. Co-Editor of Civil Wars since 2017, he is the author of East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s (2020). His research focuses on the relationships between authoritarianism and (in)security. Nina Wilén is Director of the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University. She is the author of Justifying Interventions: (De)Stabilising Sovereignty (2012) and Editor-in Chief of International Peacekeeping. Her research focuses on peacekeeping, military interventions and gender.

'This perceptive and innovative account provides vital insights into an important and under-researched aspect of peacekeeping: why and how African states became hosts of peacekeeping missions and at the same time providers of peacekeepers. In short, what has peacekeeping meant for the continent broadly speaking? With their deep understanding of peacekeeping, African politics and history, Fisher and Wilén are perfectly positioned to answer this question. They have crafted a book that is essential reading for anyone who is interested in contemporary peacekeeping, especially those who want to go to a deeper level than narrowly understand the impact of missions as they deploy.' Peter Albrecht, Danish Institute for International Studies

• Introduction; 1. The (pre-) history and evolution of African peacekeeping; 2. New means of staying in power: regime maintenance through peacekeeping; 3. From the local to the global: the connection between the domestic and the international; 4. Constructing a new identity as a peacekeeper; 5. From peacekept to peacekeeper: post-conflict peacekeeping; 6. What is 'African' about African peacekeeping?; Conclusion.