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From the Barbary states in North Africa to Bosnia-Herzegovina, from the early 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Swedish Armed Forces have been participating in international peace-keeping operations. In this book ten scholars present the history of these operations, carried out in all parts of the world. Although a number of earlier operations - especially Schleswig 1848 and Saar 1934-1935 - are described, the emphasis in the book is on the post-1945 era. The reader can follow different UN missions in Congo, on Cyprus, in the Middle East until the present UN involvement in former Yugoslavia - obstacles and failures as well as successes. Special focus is given to the development from peace-keeping to peace-enforcement in the post-1989 worlde. Thus this book gives an introduction to the history of international peace-keeping throughout the last two centuries in general, as well as to the Swedish participations in these operations in specific.