Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315292090
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific
The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific
Author: 田弘茂Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765605399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pacific Asia rivals the Middle East and South Asia as the most insecure region on earth today. This timely volume presents a survey of major issues confronting the Asia-Pacific region as it enters the new millennium: ASEAN's role in collective security; concerns over China and the disputed territories in the South China Sea; conflict on the Korean peninsula; Japan's role in the post-Cold War security order; United States' interests in Pacific security; and the relationship between Asian and European countries and governmental organizations.
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021
Author: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000474496
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021 provides insight into key regional strategic, geopolitical, economic, military and security topics. Among the topics explored are: US−China decoupling and its regional security implications; Japan’s security policy and China; India’s emerging grand strategy; Southeast Asia amid rising great-power rivalry; Australia’s new regional security posture; NATO’s evolving approach to China; The United Kingdom’s ‘tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific; and Emerging technologies and future conflict in the Asia-Pacific. Authors include leading regional analysts and academics Kanti Bajpai, Gordon Flake, Franz-Stefan Gady, Prashanth Parameswaran, Alessio Patalano, Samir Puri, Sarah Raine, Tan See Seng, Drew Thompson, Ashley Townshend, Joanne Wallis and Robert Ward.
Asia-Pacific Security
Author: Andrew CarrPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626163456
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This textbook provides an introduction to the international relations and security environment of the contemporary Asia-Pacific. The international team of expert authors introduce security studies concepts and terminology, examine the key actors in the region, explore in-depth the traditional and non-traditional security challenges, and frame the Asia-Pacific's international politics through several different international relations theories. Major topics covered include U.S.-China relations, India and Japan's changing roles, middle powers and small states, the possibility of arms races, maritime security, terrorism and transnational crime, human security, and technology and security. Asia-Pacific Security is written accessibly for undergraduate or Master's students who are studying the region for the first time, and the book is intended to be a core text for courses relating to security studies or the international relations of the region. Special features for students include chapter summaries, study questions, guides to further reading, and an extensive glossary.
Non-traditional Security In The Asia-pacific: A Decade Of Perspectives
Author: Alistair CookPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811224447
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
What is Non-Traditional Security? How have our understandings of security changed over the past decade? What are the dominant non-traditional security challenges we face in the world today?The concept of national security remains contested but our understanding of it continues to evolve as it is shaped by the world around us. From a globally dominant 'traditional' understanding of security during the Cold War characterised by a focus on countries and their militaries protecting their sovereignty to today, where non-military threats such as global pandemics, climate change, energy, to disasters threaten the wellbeing and livelihoods of people, communities, and the environment that form the backbone of society.The global dial has shifted towards a more comprehensive understanding of security that recognises these non-traditional security threats moving the focus away from solely the survival of the state to the empowerment and protection of people and the environment. This shift highlights the experiences of different individuals and communities, from civilians affected by war to irregular migrants moving from one place to the next, and what the world witnesses as efforts to empower and protect people and the environment.Indeed, comprehensive security has a long history in the post-colonial Asia-Pacific. Non-Traditional Security emerged after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It emerged as a way to recalibrate the ways governments engaged people and communities and developed pathways for countries in the region to cooperate.Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Decade of Perspectives, an interdisciplinary collection, is essential reading for anyone interested in the developments of security with a focus on the dominant non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific over the last decade — from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, to policymakers at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Anthony BurkePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526162857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional interstate strategic dynamics. Critical security in the Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities. Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the ‘war on terror’ and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated and accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable.
Southeast Asia
Author: Andrew Tian Huat TanPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Of late, Southeast Asia has come into prominence as the second front in the global war on terrorism following the terrorist attacks on September 11. This extra-regional designation, which initially caused angst and consterration, has given way to the region's participation, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, in the war on terrorism. Events such as the discovery of the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network and the deadly Bali bomb attack in 2002 have brought the region into focus as a frontline in the war on international terrorism. As a very significant proportion of world trade and oil traverses the region's vital waterways, there is growing international recognition of the strategic importance of Southeast Asia. Updated and revised, this collection of writings by a well-known expert and advisor on various security and terrorism issues gives the reader an in-depth look at the looming security threats and challenges in the region.
The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Sanu KainikaraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781920800659
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
"Post 2008, the international community has once again experienced a period of heightened volatility with a number of nations struggling to contain the fall out of the global financial crisis. Although comparatively less affected than some European nations, the Asia-Pacific also is witnessing a certain amount of instability. Australia, as a trading nation is not immune to these changes. The undeniable fact is that the security environment in the Asia-Pacific will be impacted by the economic stability or otherwise of its constituent nations. Australia's security and prosperity is underwritten by its economic stability and its ability to develop its trade and commerce further. This can only be ensured through making its trade routes, especially the sea lanes through which its trade flourishes, safe and open. In other words Australia's continued security is dependent on the safety and security of the ocean commons. It is therefore, not surprising that Australia's defence strategy has always been built on a national maritime strategy - whether articulated in so many words or not. This paper examines Australia's strategic interests and outlook from a strategic perspective and puts forward some views on its security perceptions. In contextualising Australia's maritime strategy within the ongoing developments in the Asia-Pacific region, this paper serves a useful purpose"--P. iv.
Asia Pacific Confidence And Security Building Measures
Author: Ralph A. CossaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429717385
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book provides a summation of many of the key points and insights that emerged during the first meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Confidence and Security Building Measures Working Group in Washington, D.C., in October 1994.
Comprehensive Security in Asia
Author: Kurt Kurt Werner RadtkePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004112025
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The term comprehensive security goes beyond simplifications such as us and them; it accounts for all aspects vital to national stability; food, energy, environment, communication and social security. Confidence building methods, preventive diplomacy, energy security, second order cybernetics, transparancy of financial markets are all means to enhance overall stability. Comprehensive Security has become a concept particularly suited for a continent with many powerful countries. An important contribution to one of the key issues of contemporary (Asian) politics.