Asian Security Studies
About the Book Series
Few regions of the world are fraught with as many security questions as Asia. Within this region it is possible to study great power rivalries, irredentist conflicts, nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, secessionist movements, ethnoreligious conflicts and inter-state wars. This series publishes the best possible scholarship on the security issues affecting the region, and includes detailed empirical studies, theoretically oriented case studies and policy-relevant analyses as well as more general works.
China’s Strategic Culture and Cross-Straits Relations: A Perilous Triangle
1st Edition
By Neil Munro, Duanyi Yi
October 10, 2025
This book explores China’s strategic culture in the context of relations across the Taiwan Strait. The United States has long played a stabilizing role, deterring China from attacking Taiwan. However, as China’s economy has grown, so has its military might, and it is now in a position to challenge ...
Getting to Nuclear Zero in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as a Vehicle for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory Kulacki, Keiko Nakamura, Jae-Jung Suh, Tatsujiro Suzuki
June 27, 2025
This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region. Northeast Asian governments and populations feel less secure than ever, and the governments of the USA, Russia, China, and North Korea are all expending considerable resources on ...
Chinese Assertiveness, Ideational Mobilization, and the Rise of Xi Jinping: Achieving Something
1st Edition
By Friso M.S. Stevens
May 06, 2025
This book examines the historical, domestic, and leadership drivers behind the repositioning of China toward center stage after 2008. In the years of global turmoil that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, China’s foreign policy of the late Hu Jintao years came to be viewed in Western ...
China's Use of Armed Coercion: To Win Without Fighting
1st Edition
Edited
By James A. Siebens
April 14, 2025
This book analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years, China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial...
China's Coercion of States in the Asia-Pacific Region: Balancing and Wedge Strategies in the Context of Sino-American Competition
1st Edition
By Maximilian Ernst
February 11, 2025
This book explains why China chooses to coerce Asia-Pacific regional states, despite the risk of such actions creating a backlash and complicating its strategic calculus. China’s coercion of neighboring states, often a variation of heavy informal economic sanctions combined with diplomatic pressure...
Chinese Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: According to Plan?
1st Edition
By Thomas M. Kane, Noah Falkovich
January 30, 2025
This book examines the state of China’s grand strategy in the 21st century, including political, military and economic factors. Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has attained the second highest gross domestic product in the world, taken a leadership role in East Asian ...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Conflict De-escalation: Trust Building and Interstate Rivalries
1st Edition
By James MacHaffie
October 09, 2024
This book’s main objective is to determine the role, if any, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) plays in de-escalating tensions among its members. It argues that the SCO is uniquely suited to keep its disparate members, many of whom have border disputes with each other, from escalating ...
China, Faits Accomplis and the Contest for East Asia: The Shadow of Shifting Power
1st Edition
By Joshua Hastey
October 08, 2024
This book explores China’s use of faits accomplis in its periphery, and offers the first formal model for the use of faits accomplis by rising powers. With growing attention to great power competition and conflict in the gray zone between war and peace, this book explains China’s use of faits ...
North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb
1st Edition
By George A. Hutchinson
September 30, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Korea’s nuclear strategies and of the decisions which explain its strategic motivations. The existence of two separate Koreas is an accepted outcome of the current international system. However, in today’s emerging multipolar order, the question ...
Reconsidering the East Asian Peace: Confluences, Regional Characteristics and Societal Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By William R. Thompson, Thomas J. Volgy
August 01, 2024
This volume re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry. The “East Asian peace” refers to the remarkable change in conflict levels in eastern Eurasia over the past 80 years or even the past 130 years...
Modernising the People’s Liberation Army: Aspiring to be a Global Military Power
1st Edition
Edited
By James Char
June 03, 2024
This volume examines the progress made by the Chinese military (the People’s Liberation Army, PLA) as it strives to meet its commander-in-chief’s directive to transform itself into a more capable fighting force. The book tracks the reforms undertaken by the PLA in meeting its commander-in-chief’s ...
The Covid-19 Crisis in South Asia: Coping with the Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Šumit Ganguly, Dinsha Mistree
May 27, 2024
This edited book provides a range of perspectives on the handling of particular aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic across the principal states of South Asia. As the first academic volume to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia, it examines such issues as how India has dealt with the fallout...