The Limits of Peacekeeping
Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992–2005

Table of Contents

1. Whither the good international citizen? Australia's approach to peacekeeping, 1991–96
Part I. Somalia:
2. Towards peace enforcement: Australia responds to the Somalia disaster, 1992
3. Australian Force Somalia: deploying the 1 RAR Battalion Group, December 1992–January 1993
4. 'The unforgiving school of trial and error': the 1 RAR Battalion Group in Somalia, January–February 1993
5. Achieving the mission: Australian civil–military operations in Somalia, April–May 1993
6. Maintaining a commitment: Australia's role in Unosom II, 1993
7. 'Our name would not be worth much … if we turned tail': withdrawing from Somalia, 1994–95
Part II. Rwanda:
8. 'Somebody do something': the Rwandan genocide and Australia, 1994
9. After the tempest: the first contingent to Rwanda, August 1994–February 1995
10. Increasingly unwelcome guests: the second contingent to Rwanda, February–August 1995
11. Mandate meets reality: Kibeho, April 1995
Part III. The Keating Government's Last Missions:
12. A success story in Africa: Australia and the Mozambique elections, 1994
13. Adrift in Africa: Australian deminers in Mozambique, 1994–2002
14. One for the alliance: the commitment to Haiti, 1994–95
15. To the Caribbean: Australian police operations in Haiti, 1994–95
Part IV. The Howard Government's Missions:
16. Defining the national interest: the Howard Government and peacekeeping, 1996–2001
17. Universal peacekeepers? Guatemala, 1997
18. 'Backing a winner': Australia and the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2001–05
19. 'Two guys can, and do, make a difference': Australian advisers in Sierra Leone, 2001–03.