This book analyses three events in UN peacekeeping since 1948 - the Camp David accords, the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the Sabra-Shatila massacres in South Beirut - to answer the questions they raise about peacekeeping in the Middle East.

Since 1948, the United Nations has sponsored virtually every third-party peacekeeping mission on Arab-Israeli fronts. Three recent events, however, have been responsible for significantly altering the pattern of peacekeeping in the region: the Camp David accords, which, because they were opposed in the U.N. by the Soviet Union and most Arab nations