The Price of Peace: A Predictive Model of UN Peacekeeping Fiscal Costs

This study devised a predictive model of peacekeeping fiscal costs based on an analysis of all United Nations peacekeeping operations since 1945. Our results indicate that the costs of a peacekeeping operation were significantly influenced by the length of that mission and the size of the force deployed. Beyond these factors, the historical development from observer to second generation missions has produced more costly operation.     

Book reviews

Society and Economics in Islam: Writings and Declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani. By Mahmud Taliqani. Edited by Hamid Algar. Translated by R. Campbell. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1982. 230 pp.

Islam and Ownership. By Seyyed Mahmood Taleqani. Translated by Ahmad Jabbari and Farhang Rajaee. Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers, 1983. xviii + 200 pages. Index to p. 203. $11.00 paper.

From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984. xxi + 256 pp.

Another Birth, Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad. Translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallee. Emeryville: Albany Press, 1981. 138 pp.

Die Agrarlandschaft Iranisch‐Sistans: Aspekte des Strukturwandels im 20. Jahrhundert. (Sistan‐Projekt II). By Mohammad Hassan Zia Tavana. Marburg/Lahn: Marburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 91, 1983. 212 pp., 34 figures, 35 tables. DM 33.00. Paper.

Iran since the Revolution. By Sepehr Zabih. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. 247 pp.

The Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio‐political Phenomenon in Modern Iran. By M. R. Ghanoonparvar. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984. viii + 227 pp.     

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Feasts of Honour. Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands. By Toby Alice Volkman Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1985. Pp. xii + 216. Maps, photographs.