Introduction--Lorraine Elliott and Graeme Cheeseman * PART I: FRAMING CONTEXTS * Cosmopolitan ethics and militaries as 'forces for good'--Lorraine Elliott * Cosmopolitan military actions: who can and will act now?--Gwyn Prins * The good state as cosmopolitan agent--Peter Lawler * Cosmopolitan objectives and the strategic challenges of multinational military operations--Alan Ryan * Logistics and multinational military operations--Susan Smith * PART II: TRANSNATIONAL AND REGIONAL RESPONSES * Cosmopolitan purposes and the United Nations--Marrack Goulding * NATO: Warfighters or cosmopolitan warriors?--Terry Terriff * Regional organisations and peacekeeping: a study of the ARF--Ralf Emmers * The European Union Rapid Reaction Force: an embryonic cosmopolitan military?--Terry Terriff * The Nordic militaries: forces for good?--Annika Bergman * PART III: STATES AS AGENTS: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES * US policy debates and practice: a wary cosmopolitan--Victoria K. Holt * The Canadian Forces: a cosmopolitan-minded military?--Michael Rostek * Australia: A fractured cosmopolitan--Graeme Cheeseman * The United Kingdom--Andrew Dorman * New Zealand: armed to make a difference?--Robert Ayson * Japan as a civilian peacekeeper--Eiichi Katahara * Conclusion: Cosmopolitan or cosmopolitan-minded militaries?--Graeme Cheeseman and Lorraine Elliott * Bibliography.