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.
India as an Asia Pacific Power
1st Edition
By David Brewster
October 03, 2013
The emergence of India as a regional and potentially global power is forcing us to rethink our mental map of the Asia Pacific. We are only just beginning to discern how India may alter the global economic landscape. How will the rise of India change the strategic landscape of Asia and beyond? This...
ASEAN Regionalism: Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation
1st Edition
By Christopher B. Roberts
May 31, 2013
This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power: Between Rising Naval Powers
1st Edition
Edited
By Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho
October 15, 2012
This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both ...
Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a co-operative management regime
1st Edition
Edited
By Sam Bateman, Ralf Emmers
October 10, 2012
The South China Sea has long been regarded as a major source of tension and instability in East Asia. Managing the risk of possible conflict over disputed claims in the South China Sea has been a significant challenge for regional relations. This book explores international politics and security in...
Energy Security in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Wesley
September 10, 2012
This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia – which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States, China, Japan and India, as well as the main ...
Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Brad Williams, Andrew Newman
September 10, 2012
The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. The book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of a key axis of regional stability - defence contacts between Japan and Australia, tracing the relationship from the ...
Regional Co-operation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Friedman, Sung Chull Kim
July 11, 2012
Examining the prospects for building a regional community in Northeast Asia, this book considers the foreign policies of the individual states as well as the impact of domestic politics on the regionalist agenda. It outlines the emerging Northeast Asian community and the domestic ...
Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia
1st Edition
By Ralf Emmers
May 09, 2012
Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on its major, contentious maritime territorial disputes. It looks in particular detail at...
American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Brendan Taylor
March 29, 2012
Sanctions are a persistent – many would argue increasingly central – component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific. The use of sanctions in the context of two of the most pressing regional security issues currently on Washington’s radar – the ongoing North ...
Human Security in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Yukiko Nishikawa
March 28, 2012
There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of security policy in individual states in ...
Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux?
1st Edition
Edited
By Brendan Taylor
March 13, 2012
During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global ...
Japan's Peace-Building Diplomacy in Asia: Seeking a More Active Political Role
1st Edition
By Peng Er Lam
October 20, 2011
The conventional portrayal of Japan’s role in international affairs is of a passive political player which – despite its position as the world’s second largest economic power – punches below its weight on the world stage: its foreign policy driven by Washington, mercantilism and constrained by ...