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oapen-20.500.12657-528362022-02-15T02:49:47Z Japan’s Peacekeeping at a Crossroads Fujishige, Hiromi Nagata Uesugi, Yuji Honda, Tomoaki 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 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history 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. 2022-02-14T21:18:11Z 2022-02-14T21:18:11Z 2022 book ONIX_20220214_9783030885090_12 9783030885090 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52836 eng Sustainable Development Goals Series application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-88509-0.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-88509-0 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-88509-0 10.1007/978-3-030-88509-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e0f1a9d3-54ed-4228-8f0e-2900bfd74624 9783030885090 Palgrave Macmillan 236 Cham [grantnumber unknown] Aoyama Gakuin University AGU open access
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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.
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