TY - BOOK AU - Howe,Brendan M. AU - Kondoch,Boris TI - Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific SN - 9789004322059 AV - JZ6374 .P424 2016 U1 - 355.3/57 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill/Nijhoff KW - United Nations KW - Armed Forces KW - Peacekeeping forces KW - Pacific Area KW - Asia KW - Peace-building KW - International cooperation N1 - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004322059 ER -