Brendan Howe (PhD Trinity College, Dublin) is Professor and Associate Dean at Ewha Womans University, Graduate School of International Studies, South Korea. He has published extensively on international governance issues, including The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (2013).Boris Kondoch is currently Professor at the Far East University, South Korea and Editor of the Journal of International Peacekeeping published by Brill | Martinus Nijhoff. His publications concentrate on conflict and security law, peacekeeping and North East Asia from the perspective of international law.

• 1 Introduction: The Politics, Challenges, and Future of UN Peacekeeping Contributions from the Asia-PacificBoris Kondoch and Brendan Howe2 Northeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: China, Japan, Korea Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch3 Southeast Asian Perspectives on UN Peacekeeping: Indonesia and Malaysia Alistair D. B. Cook 4 South Asian Regionalism and UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case of ‘and Never the Twain Shall Meet’?Rashed Uz Zaman and Niloy Ranjan Biswas5 Australia and PeacekeepingPeter Londey 6 RAMSI Ten Years On: from Post-Conflict Stabilisation to Development in Solomon Islands?Sinclair Dinnen 7 All-Japan Approach to International Peace OperationsYuji Uesugi 8 Thailand’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Missions: the Reciprocal Transference of Expertise and NormsKeokam Kraisoraphong and Brendan Howe9 Why Contribute? Understanding Motivations for Troop Contribution to Peace Operations Xenia Azenov Index