Southern African Development Community (SADC) to start the mission alone without SADC peacekeeping mis-

start the mission alone without SADC peacekeeping mission. As the authors argue, it is such decisions that result in the tensions between “Africrats” (p. 133)—the AU’s bureaucrats who formulate sound peace and security policies in the headquarters in Addis Ababa—and political elites that exercise their power whenever such operations advance various interests, even when it results in ignoring the AU and UN policies on peacekeeping (p. 134). While it is clear that the book makes an important contribution to knowledge on African peacekeeping and politics around international peacekeepingmore generally, there are some missed opportunities that readers might note. For instance, the deliberate decision not to include analysis on the Northern African states prevents the book from providing a holistic understanding of “African peacekeeping.” Although the authors mention the complex debate around the separation of this region from the other African regions (p. 6), and other works exist that acknowledge the leadership dilemma in the region (Radwa Saad, “Reconciling Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism: The North African Leadership Dilemma,” Leadership and Development Societies 3[1], 2018), Fisher and Wilén could have included the Northern countries’ contributions to peacekeeping, especially because there are parts of the book where it is obvious that these states play important roles in peacekeeping. The authors acknowledge this role in different historical periods. For example, three of the Big Five who funded the AU were Algeria, Egypt, and Libya, the others being South Africa and Nigeria (p. 132). These states hold a great deal of power and influence in the African peacekeeping enterprise, and that requires analysis. In addition, it would have been interesting for the reader if the book further unpacked the relatively recent phenomenon of African women in peacekeeping, especially in African peacekeeping missions and how their various gendered roles reveal the nature of African peacekeeping in the twenty-first century. Even with these gaps, the book is a highly engaging and informative read for academics, practitioners, and policy makers. There is a need for further analysis that takes African Peacekeeping seriously, like this book has done. It has opened up opportunities for future work to explore the significance that African countries have on domestic and foreign policies of countries on the African continent, and global security more broadly.