The United Nations since 1945 : peacekeeping and the Cold War

This is the first introduction to the United Nations covering the entire postwar period.

It combines a history of the UN with a broader account of east-west diplomacy during the Cold War and after.

Norrie MacQueen begins by looking at the formation, structure and functions of the UN.

Then, within a chronological framework, he assesses its contribution to international security from the emergence of the UN's peacekeeping role in 1945-56 right through to UN operations in the 1990s in Angola, Somalia and Bosnia.