ABSTRACT
What is peacekeeping? During the Cold War the image of a blue-helmeted Scandinavian or Canadian sentry guarding a buffer zone in the Sinai, on the Golan Heights or on Cyprus typified the mind’s eye view of traditional peacekeeping for over forty years. By 1995, the image of U.S. fighter aircraft conducting North Atlantic Treaty Organization-directed air strikes while British artillery fired in support of French United Nations armored forces in Bosnia had not only blurred this traditional notion of contemporary peacekeeping, but called into question the purpose and efficacy of such operations among academics and policy makers alike.
