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Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration

Most troops state-contributors to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) come from small and developing countries. Malaysia is one of those which have been significant state-contributors to UNPKO since 1960. This paper examines key imperatives that influence Malaysia’s variable commitmen...

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Main Authors: Asri Salleh, Asmady Idris
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Published: 2016
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JZ6360-6377 Non-military coercion
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spelling my.ums.eprints.330672022-07-17T03:33:12Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/ Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration Asri Salleh Asmady Idris JZ6360-6377 Non-military coercion Most troops state-contributors to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) come from small and developing countries. Malaysia is one of those which have been significant state-contributors to UNPKO since 1960. This paper examines key imperatives that influence Malaysia’s variable commitment in UNPKO from 1960-2009. Library research, field work, content analysis and interviews were among the methods used. This paper argues that Malaysia has used UNPKO to build and consolidate its middlepowermanship aspiration. Evidently, it is poised to help Malaysia steadily create and retain its considerable soft power and international prestige so integral to its quest for a non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC), among other things. Insofar, Malaysia has been elected four times into the UNSC. As a small power, Malaysia compensates its lack of hard power with soft power made possible by its notable activism in UNPKO. This, in turn, can be traced to identical Malaysian elites’ aspiration, of which common political base has been in power since 1957. This paper also helps to fill up the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects of studies on Malaysia’s UNPKO. The data collected shows that, in more ways than one, Malaysia’s UNPKO was heavily influenced by the overriding influence of systemic imperatives and not solely by Malaysia domestic imperatives as the extant literature commonly point to. This was particularly evident when Malaysia participated in more UNPKO in the post-Cold War era as opposed to during the Cold War. Yet, the paper has also found that Malaysian elites’ preference for UNPKO, to some extent, hinges on other imperatives that eventually determined Malaysia’s UNPKO such as the size, location and tenure. However, these imperatives are secondary as opposed to systemic. For future research, this study suggests a comparative analysis of countries with virtually similar characteristics vis-a-vis their commitments to UNPKO. 2016-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/1/Malaysia%E2%80%99s%20united%20nations%20peacekeeping%20operations%20%281960-2009%29.ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/2/MALAYSIA%E2%80%99S%20UNITED%20NATIONS%20PEACEKEEPING%20OPERATIONS%20%281960-2009%29%2C%20SIGNIFICANCE%20OF%20MALAYSIA%E2%80%99S%20MIDDLEPOWERMANSHIP%20AND%20ELITES%20ASPIRATION.pdf Asri Salleh and Asmady Idris (2016) Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration. In: Second Sarajevo International Conference, 17 - 20 May 2016, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305735099_MALAYSIA%27S_UNITED_NATIONS_PEACEKEEPING_OPERATIONS_1960-2009_SIGNIFICANCE_OF_MALAYSIA%27S_MIDDLEPOWERMANSHIP_AND_ELITES_ASPIRATION
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Asri Salleh
Asmady Idris
Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
description Most troops state-contributors to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) come from small and developing countries. Malaysia is one of those which have been significant state-contributors to UNPKO since 1960. This paper examines key imperatives that influence Malaysia’s variable commitment in UNPKO from 1960-2009. Library research, field work, content analysis and interviews were among the methods used. This paper argues that Malaysia has used UNPKO to build and consolidate its middlepowermanship aspiration. Evidently, it is poised to help Malaysia steadily create and retain its considerable soft power and international prestige so integral to its quest for a non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC), among other things. Insofar, Malaysia has been elected four times into the UNSC. As a small power, Malaysia compensates its lack of hard power with soft power made possible by its notable activism in UNPKO. This, in turn, can be traced to identical Malaysian elites’ aspiration, of which common political base has been in power since 1957. This paper also helps to fill up the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects of studies on Malaysia’s UNPKO. The data collected shows that, in more ways than one, Malaysia’s UNPKO was heavily influenced by the overriding influence of systemic imperatives and not solely by Malaysia domestic imperatives as the extant literature commonly point to. This was particularly evident when Malaysia participated in more UNPKO in the post-Cold War era as opposed to during the Cold War. Yet, the paper has also found that Malaysian elites’ preference for UNPKO, to some extent, hinges on other imperatives that eventually determined Malaysia’s UNPKO such as the size, location and tenure. However, these imperatives are secondary as opposed to systemic. For future research, this study suggests a comparative analysis of countries with virtually similar characteristics vis-a-vis their commitments to UNPKO.
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author Asri Salleh
Asmady Idris
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Asmady Idris
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title Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
title_short Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
title_full Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
title_fullStr Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
title_full_unstemmed Malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): Significance of Malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
title_sort malaysia’s united nations peacekeeping operations (1960-2009): significance of malaysia’s middlepowermanship and elites aspiration
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/1/Malaysia%E2%80%99s%20united%20nations%20peacekeeping%20operations%20%281960-2009%29.ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/2/MALAYSIA%E2%80%99S%20UNITED%20NATIONS%20PEACEKEEPING%20OPERATIONS%20%281960-2009%29%2C%20SIGNIFICANCE%20OF%20MALAYSIA%E2%80%99S%20MIDDLEPOWERMANSHIP%20AND%20ELITES%20ASPIRATION.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33067/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305735099_MALAYSIA%27S_UNITED_NATIONS_PEACEKEEPING_OPERATIONS_1960-2009_SIGNIFICANCE_OF_MALAYSIA%27S_MIDDLEPOWERMANSHIP_AND_ELITES_ASPIRATION
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