Legitimacy in stability operations -- Liberia : creating peace in Africa -- bosnia-herzegovina : from peace support to coercive diplomacy -- Somalia : from peace enforcement to disengagement -- Rwanda : failure to stop genocide -- Iraq : from preemption to counterinsurgency -- Iraq : transformation failure and intervention performance -- Iraq : non-support of preemptive war -- Afghanistan : from self-defence to state-building -- Afghanistan : stabilisation and counterinsurgency performance -- Afghanistan: from adequate to dwindling support -- Legitimacy and the conditions of success.