The chronic absence of combat is central to deployment experience for Argentinian Army
personnel, and serves as a lens to explore ethical life from a military perspective, not as a …

Editor's Note: If McDonald's franchises, Chinese toys, and Indian call centers recall
globalization's noisy surface features, then migrant remittances must capture its quieter …

This chapter presents a background of the fifty years of Malaysia's United Nations
Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO), ie from 1960 to 2010. It aims to examine the dynamics …

Sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel in United Nations Peace
Operations undermines the very peace the intervention aims to facilitate. By default, this also …

This study focuses on Nepal's historical contribution to United Nations peacekeeping
missions and identifies an empirical puzzle: Nepal suffers from unstable civil-military …

A state's relative power position does not necessarily pre-condition its international action
and reaction to systemic imperatives. This chapter explores the reasons why states with …

Throughout history, humanity has perceived the military to be the domain of men. The reality
is that this is a superficial perspective. Though the majority of combatants have always been …

The invitation to participate in the conference that led to this volume asked participants to
consider the ways in which contributions made by private individuals or groups in one …

This chapter compares Malaysia's UNPKO during and after the Cold War–as the case study–
in order to allow a focused analysis of the prevailing systemic-external and domestic-internal …

Illicit acts committed against local populations during peacekeeping missions may entail the
international responsibility/tortious liability of international organisations and their member …