Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
About the Book Series
Series editors: Leszek Buszynski and William Tow, both Australian National University
New security concerns are emerging in the Asia Pacific region as global players face challenges from rising great powers, all of which interact with confident middle powers in complicated ways. This series puts forward important new work on key security issues in the region. It embraces the roles of the major actors, their defense policies and postures and their security interaction over the key issues of the region. It includes coverage of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, the Koreas, as well as the middle powers of ASEAN and South Asia. It also covers issues relating to environmental and economic security as well as transnational actors and regional groupings.
Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific
1st Edition
By Senia Febrica
November 28, 2024
This book examines Indonesia’s strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, focusing especially on Indonesia’s efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi) administration from 2014 until the present. Highlighting ...
Contemporary Korea-Southeast Asian Relations: Bilateral and Multilateral
1st Edition
Edited
By Lam Peng Er
January 29, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relations between the two Koreas and the different ASEAN states, including their relations with ASEAN as an organization. It outlines a complex picture with both bilateral and multilateral relations in play at the same time. It charts for each ...
Vietnam and the United States: Domestic Constraints and Strategic Opportunities
1st Edition
By Le Thuy Trang
September 25, 2023
This book examines the unfolding new relationship between Vietnam and the United States (US) since the end of the Cold War, discussing how the relationship has emerged as one of the most intriguing facets of the regional geopolitical landscape and how the two countries turned from staunch ...
Cambodia’s China Strategy: Security Dilemmas of Embracing the Dragon
1st Edition
By Chanborey Cheunboran
January 09, 2023
This book explores the tensions within Cambodia’s foreign policy between a tight alignment with China, on the one hand, and Cambodia’s commitment to the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as its delicate foreign policy diversification towards other major powers, on the other...
The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations: History, Memory and Current Developments
1st Edition
By Gregory Raymond, John Blaxland
May 31, 2021
Thailand, a long-standing defence partner of the United States and ASEAN’s second largest economy, occupies a geostrategically important position as a land bridge between China and maritime Southeast Asia. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current state of US-Thai ...
Japan�s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships
1st Edition
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By Gauri Khandekar, Bart Gaens
December 12, 2019
As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international...
Vietnam and the South China Sea: Politics, Security and Legality
1st Edition
By Do Thanh Hai
March 05, 2019
Studies of the escalating tensions and competing claims in the South China Sea overwhelmingly focus on China and its increasingly assertive approach, while the position of the other claimants is overlooked. This book focuses on the attitude of Vietnam towards the South China Sea dispute. ...
South Asia's Nuclear Security
1st Edition
By Bhumitra Chakma
December 22, 2017
South Asia is often viewed as a potential nuclear flashpoint and a probable source of nuclear terrorism. But, how valid are such perceptions? This book seeks to address this question and assesses the region’s nuclear security from two principal standpoints. First, it evaluates the robustness of the...
The New US Strategy towards Asia: Adapting to the American Pivot
1st Edition
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By William T Tow, Douglas Stuart
November 28, 2017
Barack Obama’s "rebalancing" or "pivot" strategy, intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia-Pacific region in a variety of military, economic, and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is both a focus on China – engagement with, ...
The South China Sea Maritime Dispute: Political, Legal and Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Leszek Buszynski, Christopher B. Roberts
December 14, 2016
The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan, Korea as well as southern China. It has been the focus of a maritime dispute which has continued now for over six decades, with competing claims from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei. ...
Defence Planning and Uncertainty: Preparing for the Next Asia-Pacific War
1st Edition
By Stephan Frühling
August 24, 2016
How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China. Uncertainty is ...
Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Mely Caballero-Anthony
February 29, 2016
The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern. While there has been significant movement in the direction of democratisation, the authoritarian tendencies of popularly elected leaders and the challenges posed by emerging security threats have given rise to a shared...