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Book SynopsisPeacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific explores the politics, challenges, and future of UN peacekeeping operations from the Asia-Pacific. The first section looks at contributions from the sub-regions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. The second section of the book looks at individual country case studies including: Australia, Solomon Islands, Japan, and Thailand. The third, and concluding, section consists of a theoretical summary on the central conceptual theme of Asian motivations for PKO contributions. This content was originally published in vols. 18:3-4 and 19:3-4 of the Journal of International Peacekeeping.
Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Politics, Challenges, and Future of UN Peacekeeping Contributions from the Asia-Pacific Boris Kondoch and Brendan Howe 2 Northeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: China, Japan, Korea Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch 3 Southeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: Indonesia and Malaysia Alistair D. B. Cook 4 South Asian Regionalism and UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case of ‘and Never the Twain Shall Meet’? Rashed Uz Zaman and Niloy Ranjan Biswas 5 Australia and Peacekeeping Peter Londey 6 RAMSI Ten Years On: from Post-Conflict Stabilisation to Development in Solomon Islands? Sinclair Dinnen 7 All-Japan Approach to International Peace Operations Yuji Uesugi 8 Thailand’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Missions: the Reciprocal Transference of Expertise and Norms Keokam Kraisoraphong and Brendan Howe 9 Why Contribute? Understanding Motivations for Troop Contribution to Peace Operations Xenia Azenov Index
