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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Regulating the rule of law through the Security Council -- PART I Theorising the rule of law -- 2 The Security Council and the rule of law: some conceptual reflections -- 3 Big rule of lawSM ™(pat.pending): branding and certifying the business of the rule of law -- 4 Accounting for the absence of the rule of law: history, culture and causality -- 5 The rule of law begins at home -- 6 Humanity, law, force

This article applies Diehl & Druckman's peace operation evaluation framework to the activities of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) during the Liberian transitional peace process (2003-2006). It finds that in general UNMIL performed strongly during the transitional period, particularly in relation to the core mission goals of violence abatement, conflict containment, conflict settlement and organizational effectiveness. UNMIL's achievements were less clear and less pronounced in relation to the more complex areas of non-traditional and peacebuilding mission goals. The article also provides critical reflections on the framework for evaluating peace operations, arguing that it is difficult to escape the politics that influence the activities of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.