Affecting Reform: Explaining the Kingdom of Cambodia's Contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Comparative Context

Abstract

The Kingdom of Cambodia has recently begun to provide Royal Cambodian Armed Forces personnel to United Nations-led peacekeeping operations in Africa and the Middle East. This thesis draws on systemic, regional, and domestic level theories for why states contribute to international organizations in an attempt to explain participation in peacekeeping abroad. It argues that Cambodia's political and military elite promote peacekeeping as a means of inexpensively affecting military reform. This thesis will also provide a comparative case study of the Republic of Indonesia. The Southeast Asian nation has significantly increased the number of personnel it provides to United Nations peacekeeping missions, from a few hundred in early 2001 to nearly 1,800 personnel in mid-2011.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA551885

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Ryan

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Ideologies
  • Political Systems
  • Sociopolitics
  • Southeast Asia
  • United Nations
  • United States Pacific Command

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution