Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch -- Introduction to the Developments, Trends and Challenges to UN Peacekeeping Operations / Boris Kondoch and Brendan Howe -- Northeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: China, Japan, Korea / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch -- Southeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: Indonesia and Malaysia / Alistair D. B. Cook -- South Asian Regionalism and UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case of ‘and Never the Twain Shall Meet’? / Rashed Uz Zaman and Niloy Ranjan Biswas -- Australia and Peacekeeping / Peter Londey -- RAMSI Ten Years On: From Post-conflict Stabilisation to Development in Solomon Islands? / Sinclair Dinnen -- All-Japan Approach to International Peace Operations / Yuji Uesugi -- Thailand’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Missions: The Reciprocal Transference of Expertise and Norms / Keokam Kraisoraphong and Brendan Howe -- Why Contribute? Understanding Asian Motivations for Troop Contribution to Peace Operations / Xenia Avezov -- Index / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch.

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Peacekeeping 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 volumes 18:3-4 and 19:3-4 of the Journal of International Peacekeeping .