The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon

The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon

Author: David H. Capie

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9812307230

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Identifies and defines the concepts and ideas central to security discourse in the Pacific region. This book looks at how concepts such as human security and non-traditional security have evolved and found adherents.


New Challenges for ASEAN

New Challenges for ASEAN

Author: Richard Stubbs

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780774805216

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Over the past decade, the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have experienced dramatic economic growth. But economic transformation has created a number of new policy challenges, which the ASEAN governments must address as they prepare for the twenty-first century. New Challenges for ASEAN examines some of the most important policy issues confronting ASEAN governments. These include the degradation of the maritime and urban environments, new strains on inter-ethnic relations, domestic and international pressures to ensure the protection of human rights, growing barriers to trade with the outside world, and security concerns arising from a changing regional balance of power. The responses of the ASEAN governments to these challenges, at domestic, regional and international levels, are critically examined by a group of experts with longstanding interest in Southeast Asian affairs.


Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021

Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021

Author: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-07

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1000474496

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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.


Arms, Transparency, and Security in South-East Asia

Arms, Transparency, and Security in South-East Asia

Author: Bates Gill

Publisher: SIPRI Research Reports

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780198292852

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This report, jointly sponsored by SIPRI and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), draws together the work of eight experts on armaments and Asia-Pacific security affairs to present analysis and extensive data on arms- and defence-related tranparency mechanisms in South-East Asia. It also includes a de facto arms trade re gister for South-East Asia covering the period 1975-96. The book will prove useful to security analysts and policy makers seeking analysis of and practical approaches to transparency and confidence building in South-East Asia.


The ASEAN Regional Forum

The ASEAN Regional Forum

Author: Rodolfo Severino

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9814279250

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The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is the only Asia-Pacific-wide forum for consultations and dialogue on political and security issues. Although many articles and books have been published on the ARF, this is one of the few books that treat the forum comprehensively and from the standpoint of the region itself. It traces the ARF's origins, the efforts to move it from confidence building to "preventive diplomacy," and the forces that hold them back, analysing the strategic environment that both constrains the ARF and makes it essential. The book discusses the question of participation, describes the numerous cooperative activities that the participants undertake, and deals with the issue of institutionalization. Finally, it assesses the ARF as a forum and a process on its own terms. The book is written by the former ASEAN Secretary-General and former senior official who was involved in the ARF's early years.