Norrie MacQueen is currently Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee, and author of a range of books on the UN and peacekeeping including Peacekeeping and the International System (2006), The United Nations: a Beginner's Guide (2010), and Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations (2011).

• Preface to the Second EditionChronologyUN Operations Established 1948-1995Who’s WhoGlossary Part One: Analysis 1 The ‘Failure’ of the League of Nations and the Beginnings of the UN A new world order? Managing post-war adjustment The breakdown of the collective idea The war-time origins of the UN 2 The United Nations and the Dilemmas of Collective Security International security and the UN Charter Onset of the cold war and the end of the illusion: Korea 3 The (Re)Discovery of Peacekeeping Truce supervision in Palestine Military observation in Kashmir The UN’s first peacekeeping ‘force’: Suez 4 Cold War Peacekeeping Conceptualized Hammarskjöld’s Summary Study and the ‘rules’ of peacekeeping Arab Nationalism and the international system: Lebanon and Yemen 5 The Peacekeeping Model Challenged: from the Congo to Cyprus Post-colonial test: the Congo morass The UN in West New Guinea: peace without honour? Peacekeeping within the Cold War Family: Cyprus The legality of peace operations: the article 19 crisis 6 Superpower Détente and Peace Operations in the Middle East Israel, Egypt, Syria and the 1973 war <