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.
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 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 ...
Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War
1st Edition
By Huiyun Feng
June 29, 2009
Examining the major academic and policy debates over China’s rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China. Most of the scholarly works on China’s rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the...
Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia: Third-party Mediation in Regional Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Bercovitch, Kwei-Bo Huang, Chung-Chian Teng
June 18, 2009
This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world’s conflict flashpoints, such as the Korean Peninsula and the China-Taiwan Strait. In particular, the book will elaborate on the following themes: general and NGO ...
The Rise of China and International Security: America and Asia Respond
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin J. Cooney, Yoichiro Sato
June 18, 2009
This edited volume offers diverse and comprehensive views of China's rise and its implications to the East Asian region and beyond. The economic growth of China, initially started in the late-1970s with domestic and rural reforms, has been increasingly driven by China's industrialization and ...
Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle
1st Edition
Edited
By William T Tow, Mark Thomson, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Satu Limaye
February 04, 2009
The aim of this book is to explore the implications stemming from the recent upgrading of Australia-Japan-US security interactions and the implications for Asia-Pacific regional security that these represent. While a fully functioning trilateral security alliance binding Australia, Japan and ...