Publication

This research project examines three international peace operations in an effort to identify what lessons might be applied to a potential peace mission in the Middle East. It begins with case studies of East Timor, Kosovo and South Lebanon – all historically recent instances of international peace operations in highly complex environments. These case studies are followed by an essay on general military lessons learned from past peace operations and another on political lessons learned. Each chapter is preceded by a brief summary of how these past experiences might inform any future effort to provide the security necessary to implement a Middle East peace agreement and create a new Palestinian state. A concluding chapter examines likely future scenarios in Israel and the Palestinian territories that would make an international peace keeping force more or less likely and more or less successful.