Forces for Good?: Cosmopolitan Militaries in the Twenty-First Century

by Graeme Cheeseman

This book explores how governments, militaries and institutions respond to cosmopolitan debates about solidarity and the use of force to defend distant strangers against tyranny and the abuse of human rights. In a series of case studies, the book explores the normative, political and operational consequences for military forces of the proposition that they can and perhaps should be used in pursuit of cosmopolitan values and objectives.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2005

About the author

Graeme Cheeseman is co-editor of The New Australian Militarism (1990), Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers: Australian Defence and Security Thinking after the Cold War (1996) and Forces for Good? Cosmopolitan Militaries in the 21st Century (2004). He is a former army officer, university lecturer and member of the Secure Australia Project.