Abbreviations--Preface--Chapter 1. 1982: Turning Point for Middle East Peacekeeping--The American Commitment:--The Creation of the MFO--Peacekeeping and Geopolitics--Chapter 2. The Travails of UNIFIL:--Mandate and Expectations--"An Impossible Operational Position"--Facts and Expectations:--Disputes over UNIFIL's Role--Chapter 3. Impartiality and Effectiveness:--Measuring Peacekeeping Success --High-threat Fronts: A Peacekeeping Paradox--An American Presence in South Lebanon?--Chapter 4. The MNF in Search of a Mandate--Gemayel Campaigns for an Expanded MNF--Israel-Lebanon Agreement on Troop Withdrawal--Two Stubborn Problems--Rebuilding the Lebanese Army--Syrian Resistance--Chapter 5. Peacekeeping in Lebanon: The Three Sectors --The South: UNIFIL Redux--Prospects for a Multinational Force--in Greater Beirut: Four Options--Option 1: An Activist MNF--Option 2: Phasing Out the American Contingent--Option 3: Replacing the MNF with U.N. Peacekeepers--Option 4: A Corps of Neutral Observers--Disengagement on the Eastern Front--Chapter 6.

The Multinational Force & Observers:--Unique or Paradigm?--Success and Vulnerabilities--Freedom of Navigation--Dealing with Charges of Treaty Violations--The MFO: How Long Will It Stay?--Chapter 7. The MFO and the U.N. as Peacekeepers:--Costs and Benefits--Political Consensus and Institutional--Adaptation--Directing the Peacekeepers--Meeting the Costs--Chapter 8. Third-Party Peacekeepers for the Golan--and the West Bank?--The Golan Front--The West Bank--Notes--Appendixes--A. Documents Relating to the Sinai--Multinational Force & Observers (MFO)--B. Documents Relating to Peacekeeping--in Lebanon--C. Document Relating to the United Nations--Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)--D.

Security Council Resolutions on the United Nations--Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)--Index.