ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on decisions to engage in peace support operations commanded and controlled by the UN in internal conflict in the 1990s. It makes a series of comparisons between Nordic and non-Nordic countries as two distinct groups. The chapter discusses the results and possible interpretations considering recent political developments. It also singles out the issue of deciding to participate or not as an important path to explore. The empirical domain is argued to offer the widest possible set of states with the greatest possible freedom to express their political preferences across the widest possible range of conflicts compared to any other period preceding the 1990s. Having defined the first component of the observed dyads which states' decisions are investigated let us turn to the second component of the dyads.
