This book explores the possible consequences of the events of 11 September2001 and of the fight against terrorism the way peace operations areperceived and cond... » 

This book explores the possible consequences of the events of 11 September2001 and of the fight against terrorism the way peace operations areperceived and conducted and the way that states international organizationssuch as NATO or the EU and nonstate actors consider these operations.The 11 September attacks illustrate the widening of the security agenda thepersistence of instability and the need to deal with it in both a preventiveand a curative way. The events have had a major impact on US foreign anddefence policies on security policies on the hierarchy of priorities and USviews of peace operations around the world.This book shows that these different elements mean that the internationalenvironment of peace operations is likely to be modified while the localenvironment has remained largely unchanged. «