The Limits of Peacekeeping
The Limits of Peacekeeping
Bob Breen, Deakin University, Victoria
David Horner, Australian National University, Canberra
Garth Pratten, Australian National University, Canberra
Miesje de Vogel, Australian War Memorial
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USDThe Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international community to resolve deep-seated problems became clear. There were also limits on how many missions a middle-sized country like Australia could support. Restricted by the size of the armed forces and financial and geographic constraints, peacekeeping was always a secondary task to ensuring the defence of Australia. Faith in the effectiveness of peacekeeping reduced significantly, and the election of the Howard Coalition Government in 1996 confined peacekeeping missions to the near region from 1996–2001. This volume is an authoritative and compelling history of Australia's changing attitudes towards peacekeeping.
- This text is an official history of Australia's peacekeeping operations, interweaving details from government files and personal narratives to create a comprehensive and authoritative volume
- The book is written by leading historians in the field
- Explores a facet of peacekeeping history not normally examined - the limitations of Australia's policies
Product details
October 2018Hardback
9781107101968
680 pages
252 × 178 × 45 mm
1.52kg
12 b/w illus. 112 colour illus. 17 maps
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Table of Contents
- 1. Whither the good international citizen? Australia's approach to peacekeeping, 1991–96
- Part I. Somalia:
- 2. Towards peace enforcement: Australia responds to the Somalia disaster, 1992
- 3. Australian Force Somalia: deploying the 1 RAR Battalion Group, December 1992–January 1993
- 4. 'The unforgiving school of trial and error': the 1 RAR Battalion Group in Somalia, January–February 1993
- 5. Achieving the mission: Australian civil–military operations in Somalia, April–May 1993
- 6. Maintaining a commitment: Australia's role in Unosom II, 1993
- 7. 'Our name would not be worth much … if we turned tail': withdrawing from Somalia, 1994–95
- Part II. Rwanda:
- 8. 'Somebody do something': the Rwandan genocide and Australia, 1994
- 9. After the tempest: the first contingent to Rwanda, August 1994–February 1995
- 10. Increasingly unwelcome guests: the second contingent to Rwanda, February–August 1995
- 11. Mandate meets reality: Kibeho, April 1995
- Part III. The Keating Government's Last Missions:
- 12. A success story in Africa: Australia and the Mozambique elections, 1994
- 13. Adrift in Africa: Australian deminers in Mozambique, 1994–2002
- 14. One for the alliance: the commitment to Haiti, 1994–95
- 15. To the Caribbean: Australian police operations in Haiti, 1994–95
- Part IV. The Howard Government's Missions:
- 16. Defining the national interest: the Howard Government and peacekeeping, 1996–2001
- 17. Universal peacekeepers? Guatemala, 1997
- 18. 'Backing a winner': Australia and the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2001–05
- 19. 'Two guys can, and do, make a difference': Australian advisers in Sierra Leone, 2001–03.
