Pt. 1. Challenges of post-Cold War peacekeeping. Cascading generations of peacekeeping: across the Mogadishu line to Kosovo and Timor / Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel ; Peacekeeping and the violence in ethnic conflict / Roger Mac Ginty and Gillian Robinson ; The role of the UN Secretariat in organizing peacekeeping / Hisako Shimura ; Policing the peace / Michael O'Connor -- Pt. 2. Regional experiences. Regional peacekeeping in the CIS / S. Neil MacFarlane ; Towards more effective peace operations: learning from the African "laboratory"? / Mark Malan ; Establishing the credibility of a regional peacekeeping capability / Vere Hayes -- Pt. 3. Experiences from Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, and East Timor. The politics of UN peacekeeping from Cambodia to Yugoslavia / Yasushi Akashi ; The Cambodian experience: a success story still? / John Sanderson ; UN peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia- from UNPROFOR to Kosovo / Satish Nambiar ; Civilian police in UN peace operations: some lessons from recent Australian experience / John McFarlane and William Maley -- Pt. 4. A new beginning? the road to Brahimi and beyond. Peacekeeping and the changing role of the United Nations: four dilemmas / Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst ; From An agenda for peace to the Brahimi Report: towards a new era of UN peace operations / Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur.