ABSTRACT
After the end of the Cold War, the world has seen a dramatic increase in United Nations peace and security operations, a development that can be referred to as ‘new interventionism’ (Doyle and Sambanis 2006: 6). However, the UN is not the only protagonist in the peace and security operations arena. As several researchers (for example, Bellamy and Williams 2005b) have pointed out, in recent years there has been a shift to various other actors, mainly other multilateral organizations.
