East Asia, Peacekeeping Operations, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Focusing on East Asia, this collection explores the paradox of functional regional cooperation in the areas of humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and UN Peacekeeping operations, in a context of increasing regional tensions and threats.
East Asia comprising the states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is facing a range of human, traditional, climate and ideational threats. In addressing some of these threats particularly those arising from climate-induced disasters this region has been able to develop some ad-hoc cooperative practices that, according to functional logics of regional integration, could lead to longer-term sustained coordinated responses and even regional partnerships. Similarly, the region is increasingly contributing to UN peacekeeping operations where these states also cooperate in the context of UN-led missions. Yet, despite the potential for these interactions to lead to greater regional integration and coordinated action in responding to a range of security threats, these interactions are increasingly taking place in a context of animosity both between regional powers and with extra-regional powers.
This edited collection explores these functional interactions and posits conclusions about the potential for longer-term sustained coordinated action. These papers engage with a range of theoretical approaches in explaining the patterns of relations that are present in the region in relation to humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and UN peacekeeping operations.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Catherine Jones is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK. Previously she was the East Asia Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her research explores the nexus between security and development in East Asia. Her publications include, Chinas Challenge to Liberal Norms and China and North Korea: between Development and Security.
Garren Mulloy Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Daito Bunka University, Japan, has been researching Japans security for over twenty years. His doctoral thesis (2011) focused on Japanese overseas operations, and his book Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History was published in 2021.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
- Cooperation and coordination in a context of animosity? East Asia, peacekeeping operations and humanitarian and disaster relief
- Rikard Jalkebro and Catherine Jones
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 113
Chapter 2
- Japan, Asian, and Global broader peace operations: functional engagement amid regional estrangement
- Garren Mulloy
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 1434
Chapter 3
- Conceptualising humanitarian civil-military partnerships in the Asia-Pacific: (Re-)ordering cooperation
- Alistair D. B. Cook and Sangeetha Yogendran
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 3553
Chapter 4
- Impact of Chinas decision-making processes on international cooperation: cases of peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief
- Miwa Hirono
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 5471
Chapter 5
- ANZUS cooperation in humanitarian assistance and disaster response in the Asia-Pacific: ships in the night?
- Vanessa Newby
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 7288
Chapter 6
- South East Asian powers and contributions to peacekeeping operations: UN-ASEAN partnering for peace?
- Catherine Jones
- Australian Journal of International Affairs, volume 74, issue 1 (2020) pp. 89107
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Notes on Contributors
Alistair D. B. Cook is Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific, and Myanmar in particular, on humanitarian affairs, foreign policy and regional cooperation.
Miwa Hirono is Associate Professor at the College of Global Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Her research focuses on Chinas evolving roles in conflict-affected regions, with attention paid to UN peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, conflict mediation and development.
Rikard Jalkebro was the director of the Global Challenges Programme in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. Rikards research interests include exposing the juncture between the dynamics of peace processes and terrorism, with a particular focus on organised crime and corruption; risk resilience; and climate change.
Catherine Jones is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she teaches on Northeast Asian international relations and the politics and development of Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on Chinas interaction and contribution to international norms and their implementation which was the topic of her recent book Chinas Challenge to Liberal Norms, published by Palgrave in 2018. Her work as also been published in The Pacific Review, Pacific Focus and International Politics.