Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?

Cambridge University Press, 10/15/2009
EAN 9780521758826, ISBN10: 0521758823

Paperback, 388 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse but complementary perspectives on which issues and factors are most important in explaining how security politics in Asia can be interpreted at both the regional and global levels of analysis. Issues addressed include power balancing and alliances, governance and democracy, maritime and energy security, the relationship between economics and security, 'human security', terrorism, nuclear non-proliferation, climate change and pandemics. This work will serve as a standard reference on the evolution of key issues in Asian security.

Preface
1. Setting the context William T. Tow
Part I
2. Grappling with an elusive concept Brian L. Job
3. Asia-Pacific institutions Michael Wesley
4. The United States
regional strategies and global commitments Michael Mastanduno
5. A rising China and American perturbations Hugh White and Brendan Taylor
Part II
6. Hegemony, hierarchy and order Evelyn Goh
7. Democracy and security in East Asia William Case
8. Security community-building in Asia-Pacific Sorpong Peou
9. Human security and global governance Akiko Fukushima and William T. Tow
10. The economics-security nexus in the Asia-Pacific region John Ravenhill
Part III
11. Problematising 'linkages' between Southeast Asian and international terrorism Greg Fealy and Carlyle A. Thayer
12. Nuclear weapons
Asian case studies and global ramifications Marianne Hanson and Rajesh Rajagopalan
13. Maritime security
regional concerns and global implications Sam Bateman
14. Thinking globally and acting regionally
securitising energy and environment Aynsley Kellow
15. Regional health and global security
the Asian cradle of pandemic influenza Christian Enemark
Part IV
16. The new transregional security politics of the Asia-Pacific Amitav Acharya.