Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict

A critique of United Nations’ peacekeeping missions during the 1990s, the author explains how the United Nations is often hamstrung by its own member states and their inability to act, rather than the organisation of the United Nations itself. Based mainly on his own high-level access to world leaders and bureaucrats, Shawcross gives an in-depth analysis not only of the missions the United Nations endeavours to carry out, but also the Realpolitik basis for why these missions usually fail to realise their objectives.