United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.