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Acknowledgements
In compiling the third edition, we would like to thank the many friends, colleagues and peacekeepers who have influenced our views on these issues. In addition, we have benefited enormously from discussing these topics with students who have taken our respective courses on peace operations over the last two decades. The team at Polity, as well as the anonymous reviewers, also deserve thanks for their incisive editing and comments, which helped improve the manuscript in several ways. Our thanks are also due to Eric Rudberg for his help in compiling the book’s index.
Finally, the authors and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to use copyright material:
