journal of international peacekeeping 18 (2014) 236-255 © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2014 | doi 10.1163/18754112-1804007 brill.com/joup JOUP * Keokam Kraisoraphong is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is a member of the execu- tive board and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies (isis), Thailand, through which she is a member of the Association for Security Sector Education and Training (asset). Her latest publications include inter alia, ‘Thailand and the Responsibility to Protect,’ The Pacific Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2012; Conflict in Southern Thailand: Seed for Security Sector Reform (Asia Security Initiative Policy Series no. 21, Singapore: rsis Center for Non-Traditional Security (nts) Studies, 2013; and “Crossing the Threshold: Thailand’s Path to Rethink Security Sector Governance” in Peacebuilding and Security Sector Governance in Asia. (Zurich: LIT VERLAG GmbH, 2014). Brendan Howe is a tenured Professor and former Department Chair at the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. He is the Editor of the International Studies Review and Series Editor for Palgrave Macmillan of the Pivot series on Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia. He has held visiting research fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin (2014–2015), De La Salle University, Manila (2010), the University of Sydney (2008), Korea National Defense University (2007), the East- West Center, Hawaii (2003), and Georgetown University (1999–2000). Major publications include inter alia, Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (ed.) (Alderhot: Ashgate, 2014); The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Participation, the State, and the People: Democratic Voices from South (ed.) (Tokyo: unu Press, 2010); ‘Human Security and Human Development in Laos’ (with Kearrin Sims), Asian Survey, vol. 51, no. 2, 2011; ‘Human Security: A Global Responsibility to Protect and Provide’ (with Ian Holliday), Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, vol. 23, no. 1, 2011; ‘North Korea’s Insecurity Dilemma’, North Korean Review, vol. 6, no. 10, 2010; ‘Between Normality and Uniqueness: Unwrapping the Enigma of Japanese Security Policy Decision-Making’, Modern Thailand’s Participation in u n Peacekeeping Missions The Reciprocal Transference of Expertise and Norms Keokam Kraisoraphong Faculty of Political Science; Chulalongkorn University keokamk@gmail.com Brendan Howe Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea bmg.howe@gmail.com