The interaction between United Nations peacekeeping forces and "ordinary" local people is a key, if overlooked, determinant of mission success, suggests Pouligny (Centre for International Studies and Research and the Institute of Political Science, France). Basing her work on research conducted in El Salvador, Cambodia, and Haiti, she seeks to analyze the objectives of a wide range of local actors interacting with peacekeeping forces and the means they used to achieve those objectives, thus exposing the way United Nations teams are diverted by the "local socio-political game" to local players' uses. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)