Affecting reform explaining the Kingdom of Cambodia's contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in comparative context
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Ryan, Michael D.
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Sotomayor, Arturo
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Ear, Sophal
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2011-09
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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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 eighteen hundred personnel in mid-2011.
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Thesis
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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xvi, 69 p. ;
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.