A GROWING FORCE
A GROWING FORCE

Author: Rizal Sukma

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9784889071368

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East Asia is undergoing a remarkable transformation, but at the same time it is facing a growing number of traditional and nontraditional security challenges with the potential to destabilize the region. In recent years, there has been growing attention to ways to strengthen regional security cooperation at the government level but much less attention to what is happening outside of official circles. In fact, civil society organizations in the region have quietly been playing a greater role in responding to security threats, especially nontraditional security challenges. In "A Growing Force" the authors explore how these organizations are contributing in five areas--piracy, disaster relief, human trafficking, health, and climate change--in order to diagnose how they are helping and what can be done to make them more effective. Contributors include Gui Yongtao (Peking University), Yanzhong Huang (Council on Foreign Relations), Jun Honna (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Yukie Osa (Association for Aid and Relief, Japan), Chung Suh-Yong (Korea University), and J.N. Mak (independent analyst, Malaysia).

Asean 50: Regional Security Cooperation Through Selected Documents
Asean 50: Regional Security Cooperation Through Selected Documents

Author: Daniel Wei Boon Chua

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9813221151

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ASEAN 50: Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents curates key official documents that establish ASEAN as the foundation of Southeast Asia's peace and security. Since 1967, ASEAN has played the crucial role of managing conflicts and maintaining stability in a region shaped by diverse political, economic and socio-cultural dynamics. During the Cold War, ASEAN's ability to keep major power rivalries and intra-mural disputes in check provided the conditions for economic growth in the region. Yet the extent of ASEAN's contributions to the security of Southeast Asia have not been systematically presented.This compendium of official ASEAN declarations, statements, treaties, conventions and workplans demonstrates the activism and innovation of ASEAN member countries in their management of regional security for the past five decades. ASEAN 50: Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents provides answers to how ASEAN remains a cohesive organisation through periods of regional conflict, how ASEAN unity thrives despite seemingly insurmountable differences among the ten members, and how ASEAN centrality is resilient against pressure arising from great power influences in Southeast Asia.

Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation
Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation

Author: Shafiah F. Muhibat

Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783848703258

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This book clarifies the concept of cooperative security as an approach to regional security cooperation, using two research methods: conceptual analysis and multiple case studies. The book provides evidence that: (1) there are at least three different concepts of cooperative security; (2) the concept has been interpreted differently when it is used to explain different phenomena in different regions; and (3) the concept changes according to the dynamics that characterize the particular region where it is applied. This book argues that the interplay between changes in threat perceptions and changes in norms may consequently change the form of regional cooperation. Threats shape state interests, and consequently affect state policies. When an object or phenomenon becomes perceived as a threat, such a perception plays a great role in determining what is in the state's interest. The need for change becomes more urgent when it is sensed that the "old" norms are being tested by the "new" threats. Two case studies, both in the East Asian region, are done to illustrate this hypothesis.

Regional Security in Southeast Asia
Regional Security in Southeast Asia

Author: Mely Caballero Anthony

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789812302601

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The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors beyond the states of ASEAN and the key interactions that have evolved over time, which have been instrumental in moving regional mechanisms beyond the ASEAN way. The book argues that the ASEAN way has not been impervious to change. As the association finds its way through periods of crises and continues to confront the many challenges ahead, ASEAN and its mechanisms are already being transformed beyond the narrow confines of the modalities associated with the ASEAN way. The changes in the political and security landscape of the region, as well as the democratic transitions taking place in some member states, have set the stage for a much more dynamic set of regional actors and processes that bring into question the kind of regionalism that is now taking place in the region. the way regionalism is changing in Southeast Asia.

Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order
Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order

Author: See Seng Tan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317476387

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New developments in the Asia Pacific are forcing regional officials to rethink the way they manage security issues. The contributors to this work explore why some forms of security cooperation and institutionalisation in the region have proven more feasible than others. This work describes the emergence of the professions in late tsarist Russia and their struggle for autonomy from the aristocratic state. It also examines the ways in which the Russian professions both resembled and differed from their Western counterparts.

New Challenges New Approaches
New Challenges New Approaches

Author: 渡邊幸治

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9784889070828

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Since the end of the cold war, new, nontraditional security threats have risen in prominence. The challenges related to issues such as nuclear development, terrorism, peacebuilding, and piracy increasingly require regional cooperation due to their cross-border nature. While the countries in East Asia are embarking on the process of institutionalizing patterns of regional cooperation, more attention needs to be paid to creating institutions that are able to address these nontraditional security issues. In this volume, the authors explore new challenges related to nontraditional security threats and analyze the capacity of existing regional mechanisms to deal with them. They offer recommendations on the necessary steps to create a more secure region in today's world. Contributors include Joon Num Mak (Maritime Institute of Malaysia), A. Francisco J. Mier (National Security Council, the Philippines), Yuji Uesugi (Hiroshima University), Koji Watanabe (Japan Center for International Exchange), and Wu Chunsi (Shanghai Institutes of International Studies).

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism

Author: Tanja A. Börzel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 0199682305

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesize the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research. Twenty-seven chapters review the theoretical and empirical scholarship with regard to the emergence of regionalism, the institutional design of regional organizations and issue-specific governance, as well as the effects of regionalism and its relationship with processes of regionalization. The authors explore theories of cooperation, integration, and diffusion explaining the rise and the different forms of regionalism. The handbook also discusses the state of the art on the world regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Various chapters survey the literature on regional governance in major issue areas such as security and peace, trade and finance, environment, migration, social and gender policies, as well as democracy and human rights. Finally, the handbook engages in cross-regional comparisons with regard to institutional design, dispute settlement, identities and communities, legitimacy and democracy, as well as inter- and transregionalism.