A wealth of information relating to the development of transnational policing operations and the historical development of missions can be found at:

1. UNFICYP (undated) United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus – Facts and Figures, www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unficyp/facts.shtml.

2. UN (undated) History of United Nations Police, http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/sites/police/history.shtml,

3. Military intervention has become a relatively common tool of US foreign policy, often with support from other European countries. Prof. Alessandro Dal Lago discusses how this raises a number of questions about the nature, legitimacy, and consequences of securing freedom and democracy in global politics by means of military violence. A series of videos exploring these themes is available on You Tube, part one is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKwg9OZf04