An Analysis Of Australia 's Participation In International Peace Operations After The Cold War

The purpose of analyzing the participation of Australia’sinternational peace operation post-Cold War is to take the internationalpeace operation of Australia as the research object and then analyze theits characteristics of post-cold war participation in the UN peacekeeping.In this process, it combs the policies, histories and typical cases ofinternational peace operations post-cold war of Australia. Then it sums upthe characteristics of Australia’s participation in international peaceoperations through data.This paper focuses on the interactive relationship betweenparticipation in international peace operations of Australia post-cold warand Australia’s foreign policies. The research object focuses on thoseinternational peace operations that Australia has participated in. Thegeneral idea of this paper is as following. Firstly, expounding thechanges of UN peacekeeping operations post-cold war and the policies&external environment of participating in peacekeeping operations forAustralia. Then by combing historic facts, reviewing each state ofparticipation of Australia after1990s. Thirdly, analyzing the typicalcases of participation in international peace operations of Australia.Finally, summarizing the main features of Australia’s participation ininternational peace operations.This paper summarizes the characteristics of Australia’s participation in international peace operations: policy matures, peacekeeping historyhaving obvious periodic, attaching importance to the Asia-pacific region,strategically attaching great importance to the cooperation with the USand Europe, culturally attaching great importance to the protection ofhuman rights, and giving attention to provide support for the nationalforeign policies.