Japan's Peacekeeping at a Crossroads Taking a Robust Stance or Remaining Hesitant?

• Yazar: Fujishige, Hiromi Nagata (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Uesugi, Yuji (auth), Honda, Tomoaki (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cham Springer Nature 2022
• Seri Bilgileri: Sustainable Development Goals Series
• Konular: International relations; Politics & government; Asian history; Open Access; Japanese studies; peacekeeping; peacebuilding; security policy; United Nations; Japanese foreign policy; SDG 16; sustainable development goals; peace operations; Japan's contribution to global peace
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

This open access book examines why Japan discontinued its quarter-century history of troop contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations (1992-2017). Japan had deployed its troops as UN peacekeepers since 1992, albeit under a constitutional limit on weapons use. Japan's peacekeepers began to focus on engineering work as its strength, while also trying to relax the constraints on weapons use, although to a minimal extent. In 2017, however, Japan suddenly withdrew its engineering corps from South Sudan, and has contributed no troops since then. Why? The book argues that Japan could not match the increasing "robustness" of recent peacekeeping operations and has begun to seek a new direction, such as capacity-building support.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (236 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-88509-0
9783030885090

Erişim

Open Access