From Theory to Practice: Assessing the Role and Effectiveness of UN Peacekeeping Operations

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Review essay of: From Theory to Practice: Assessing the Role and Effectiveness of UN Peacekeeping Operations Peacekeeping in South Sudan: one year of lessons from under the Blue Beret by Robert B. Munson, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 150 pp. + notes + bibliography + index $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-137-50182-0 ; Taking sides in peacekeeping: impartiality and the future of the United Nations by Emily Paddon Rhoads, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 213 pp. + bibliography + index £85.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-198-74724-6