Australian Peacekeeping
Sixty Years in the Field

£39.00

Editors:
David Horner, Australian National University, Canberra
Peter Londey, Australian War Memorial
Jean Bou, Australian National University, Canberra

Peter Londey, David Horner, John Connor, Bob Breen, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, James Batley, Superintendent Tim Dahlstrom, Federal Agent James Steedman, Major General Mike Smith, Lieutenant General John Sanderson, Major General Tim Ford, Ian Mansfield, Keith Howard, Brigadier Paul Symon, Major General Ian Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Meacham, Commander Geoff Hazel, Federal Agent Erica Hanisch, Ramesh Thakur

View all contributors

Date Published: February 2009
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521735926

Rate & review

£ 39.00
Paperback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description

Peacekeeping has been a significant part of Australia's overseas military engagement since the end of the Second World War. Yet it is a part of the country's history that has been largely neglected until the 1990s, and even since then interest has been slow to develop. In the last sixty years, between 30,000 and 40,000 Australian military personnel and police have served in more than 50 peacekeeping missions in at least 27 different conflicts. This insightful, engaging and superbly-edited volume approaches Australian peacekeeping from four angles: its history, its agencies, some personal reflections, and its future. Contributors discuss the distinction between peacekeeping and war-fighting, the importance of peacekeeping in terms of public policy, the problems of multinational command, and the specialist contributions of the military, civilian police, mine-clearers, weapons inspectors and diplomats.
- Provides a considered history of Australian peacekeeping over sixty years, based on the most recent scholarship
- Includes a wide range of perspectives on Australian peacekeeping from the academic to the practitioner
- Includes perspectives from experts in the field on how Australian peacekeeping will develop in the future
Read more
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: February 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521735926
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
Part I. The Historical Record:
1. Inventing peacekeeping Peter Londey
2. Australian peacekeeping and the new world order David Horner
3. Humanitarian intervention and domestic politics: Australia's decisions to participate in Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda John Connor
4. Australian peace operations in the South Pacific 1980–2006: from neighbourhood watch to neighbourhood intervention Bob Breen
Part II. The Agencies:
5. The Australian Defence Force and peacekeeping Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie
6. Foreign affairs and peacekeeping James Batley
7. Full spectrum policing - the Australian Federal Police from peacekeeping to the rule of law Superintendent Tim Dahlstrom and Federal Agent James Steedman
8. Non-government organisations and peacekeeping Major General Mike Smith
Part III. The Participants:
9. Command in Cambodia - a memoir Lieutenant General John Sanderson
10. Commanding multinational forces Major General Tim Ford
11. Landmines, Australians and peacekeeping Ian Mansfield
12. Weapons inspection Rod Barton
13. Observers in UNTSO Keith Howard, Brigadier Paul Symon, Major General Ian Gordon and Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Meacham
14. Police in peacekeeping - a personal view Commander Geoff Hazel
15. International policing - a career opportunity Federal Agent Erica Hanisch
Part IV. Future Peacekeeping:
16. Peacekeeping: past experience, future prospects Major General Tim Ford
17. Peacekeeping: yesterday, today and tomorrow Ramesh Thakur
Appendices
Notes
Index.
Look Inside
Editors
David Horner, Australian National University, Canberra
David Horner is Professor of Australian Defence History in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
Peter Londey, Australian War Memorial
Peter Londey is a Lecturer in Classics in the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University.
Jean Bou, Australian National University, Canberra
Jean Bou is a Historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial.
Contributors
Peter Londey, David Horner, John Connor, Bob Breen, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, James Batley, Superintendent Tim Dahlstrom, Federal Agent James Steedman, Major General Mike Smith, Lieutenant General John Sanderson, Major General Tim Ford, Ian Mansfield, Keith Howard, Brigadier Paul Symon, Major General Ian Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Meacham, Commander Geoff Hazel, Federal Agent Erica Hanisch, Ramesh Thakur