Twisting arms and flexing muscles : humanitarian intervention and peacebuilding in perspective

List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction, Natalie Mychajlyszyn International politics, local conflicts and intervention, S. Neil MacFarlane Human insecurity and problematic peacekeeping in Africa: beyond 'Blood Diamonds' and HIV/AIDS, Timothy M. Shaw Short-term gain, long-term pain: an assessment of United Nations chapter VII activities in Central Africa, Robert Astroff and David Meren Twisting one arm: the effects of biased intervenors, David Carment and Dane Rowlands Twisting arms or shaking hands? how to put peacekeepers out of business, David Last Strange bedfellows in humanitarian crises: NGOs and the military, Donna Winslow Conclusion: dilemmas of peacekeeping at the start of the twenty-first century, Timothy M. Shaw and Natalie Mychajlyszyn Bibliography Index.