Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific
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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.
List of illustrations viiAbout the contributors viiiPreface xAcknowledgements xiiList of abbreviations xiv1 Setting the context William T. Tow 1Part I 292 Grappling with an elusive concept Brain L. Job 313 Asia-Pacific institutions Michael Wesley 494 The United States: regional strategies and global commitments Michael Mastanduno 675 A rising China and American perturbations Hugh White Brendan Taylor 85Part II 996 Hegemony, hierarchy and order Evelyn Goh 1017 Democracy and security in East Asia William Case 1228 Security community-building in the Asia-Pacific Sorpong Peou 1449 Human security and global governance Akiko Fukushima William T. Tow 16710 The economics-security nexus in the Asia-Pacific region John Ravenhill 188Part III 20911 Problematising 'linkages' between Southeast Asian and international terrorism Greg Fealy Carlyle A. Thayer 21112 Nuclear weapons: Asian case studies and global ramifications Marianne Hanson Rajesh Rajagopalan 22813 Maritime security: regional concerns and global implications Sam Bateman 24714 Thinking globally and acting regionally: securitising energy and environment Aynsley Kellow 26615 Regional health and global security: the Asian cradle of pandemic influenza Christian Enemark 284Part IV 29916 The new transregional security politics of the Asia-Pacific Amitav Acharya 301References 314Index 352
