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 Rising Sea Power: The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge
1st Edition
By Peter Howarth
November 15, 2008
This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets ...
Taiwan's Security: History and Prospects
1st Edition
By Bernard Cole
May 23, 2008
This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan’s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan’s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations. This book provides crucial base-line data and evaluation of one of...
Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Zachary Abuza
January 23, 2008
Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world. Indonesia is a country long known for its diversity and tolerant brand of Islam. However, since the fall of Suharto, a more intolerant form of Islam...
China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to Global Power
1st Edition
By Marc Lanteigne
September 21, 2007
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power ...
Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon
September 21, 2007
A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent ...
Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War
1st Edition
By Edward C. O'Dowd
May 31, 2007
This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events. The Sino-Vietnamese War was the third Indochina war, and contemporary Southeast Asia cannot be properly understood unless ...
US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words
1st Edition
Edited
By Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell, Brian Shoup
September 19, 2006
In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation. During the Cold War, owing to opposing grand strategies, the two states frequently found themselves at odds. With the end of the Cold War and the demise of the ...
Chinese Civil-Military Relations: The Transformation of the People's Liberation Army
1st Edition
Edited
By Nan Li
January 13, 2006
This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations? What can account for changes? And what are the implications for Chinese security policy and strategic behaviour? It tackles these questions by keenly assessing civil-military dynamics in elite politics...
If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Tsang
January 13, 2006
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force, a ...