Preface: The arc of intervention
Prologue: Peacekeeper, peacemaker
Independence: African beginnings
Promises to keep: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the trials of peacekeeping in a world of civil war
Sovereignty and human rights: Kosovo, East Timor, Darfur, and the responsibility to protect
A peoples/ United Nations: reforming global governance and restoring the rule of law
The fate of the continent: Africa's wars, Africa's peace
Redefining human security: the global fight against poverty and the millennium development goals
The world's fault line: peacemaking in the Middle East
The wars of 9/11: terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations at the brink
Epilogue: Dreams of a realist.
