ABSTRACT
Although other nations, most notably Canada, played a key role in UN peacekeeping operations during the Cold War,2 the Nordic Model is generally viewed as the quintessence of traditional (Cold War) peacekeeping.3 Its influence was evident from the popularity of the ‘Blue Book’, the Nordic Standby Forces manual which became widely used as a basis for establishing and training UN contingents.4 It was also to the Nordic Model that the British Army, the US Army and the WEU turned when they began to take an interest in peacekeeping in the early 1990s as a result of the operation in the former Yugoslavia.5
