Ms Lehmann has provided a timely and challenging prescription for just how the goals of placing communication functions at the heart of the strategic management of the UN might be achieved - and a dramatic warning of the consequences of failing to do so.

Ingrid Lehmann

Towards a theory of political communications for international organizations; public information management in UN peacekeeping; the information programme of UNTAG in Namibia, 1989-1990; the information and education programme UNTAC in Cambodia, 1992-1993; the failure to communicate - UNAMIR in Rwanda, 1994-1995; the information campaigns of UNMIH in Haiti, 1994-1996; peacekeeping in a propagandist environment - from UNPROFOR to UNTAES in the Former Yugoslavia; comparisons and conclusions.