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.
India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned
1st Edition
Edited
By Sumit Ganguly, David P. Fidler
May 31, 2013
This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key ...
Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation
1st Edition
By William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, Anna B. Puglisi
May 20, 2013
This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated...
China, Europe and International Security: Interests, Roles, and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Frans-Paul van der Putten, Chu Shulong
February 20, 2012
This book examines the roles played by China and Europe in the domain of international security in the 21st century. Bringing together Chinese and European expertise on the Sino-European Security relationship , this book positions Europe - both the EU and the major national actors - and China in a...
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
2nd Edition
By Dennis J. Blasko
February 13, 2012
The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution. In 1999, the military ...
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: The ASEAN Regional Forum
1st Edition
Edited
By Jürgen Haacke, Noel Morada
July 25, 2011
This book offers the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which remains the foremost dialogue forum for the promotion of cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific. Contributors focus on the perspectives and roles of the key players in the ARF – ASEAN, the United ...
US-China-EU Relations: Managing the New World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, Zhang Tuosheng
April 04, 2011
This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics. Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future ...
Managing the China Challenge: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Quansheng Zhao, Guoli Liu
February 04, 2011
This edited volume addresses one of the most significant issues in international strategic studies today: how to meet the challenge of a rising China? The contributors take a global view of the topic, offering unique and often controversial perspectives on the nature of the China challenge. The ...
Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb
1st Edition
Edited
By Sumit Ganguly, S. Paul Kapur
February 02, 2010
This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment. The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the world’s foremost security concerns. The effect of nuclear weapons on the behaviour of newly nuclear states, and the...
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation: The Case of India-Pakistan
1st Edition
By Saira Khan
December 24, 2009
This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict. The book argues that the significance of the possession of nuclear weapons in conflict resolution has been previously overlooked. Saira Khan argues that the acquisition of nuclear ...
China, the United States, and South-East Asia: Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheldon W. Simon, Evelyn Goh
December 21, 2009
China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, affecting the political, security, and economic affairs of all states that comprise the world’s fastest developing region of the Asia-Pacific. Most of ...
South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Rajesh M. Basrur
November 26, 2009
This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals. Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United States-China, Soviet Union-China, and United...
China's War on Terrorism: Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security
1st Edition
By Martin I. Wayne
June 29, 2009
China’s war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatens the government’s grip on a massive region of north- western China known as Xinjiang. Riots, bombings, ambushes, and assassinations have rocked the ...