Routledge Security in Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East on all aspects of security in Asia.
The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia: The Origins of a Cooperative Strategy for Twenty-First Century Seapower
1st Edition
By Bruce Elleman
November 28, 2024
This book examines the origins of the US Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US government’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. Besides examining the details of this strategy formulation, the book explores ...
The US Navy and the South China Sea: American, Chinese, and Vietnamese Maritime Relations, 1945-2023
1st Edition
By Bruce A Elleman
August 13, 2024
This book explores the question “Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?” It traces the history of diplomatic, economic, and military tensions among the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, outlining the origins of the ...
The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Useful Rivalry
1st Edition
By Anna Costa
December 12, 2019
This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. It charts the development of a dispute that has become a potential flashpoint for conflict between the two countries. The book...
Taiwan's Security and Air Power: Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat from Mainland China
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Edmonds, Michael Tsai
August 14, 2018
Recent concern about mainland China's intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to growing interest in Taiwan's military strategy. This book brings together a range of experts from the West and from Taiwan itself who examine the key ...
The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute: Okinawa's Reversion and the Senkaku Islands
1st Edition
By Robert Eldridge
July 27, 2016
Ownership of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is disputed between China and Japan, though historically the islands have been part of Okinawa, the southernmost islands of the Japanese archipelago. The dispute, which also involves Taiwan, has the potential to be a flashpoint between the two ...
India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle
1st Edition
By Ashok Kapur
February 29, 2016
This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how two enmities – Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani – and one friendship – Sino-Pakistani – defined the distribution of power and the patterns of relationships ...
China's Strategic Competition with the United States
1st Edition
By Russell Ong
October 03, 2013
This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted nature of the relationship between US and China in the post-Cold War era. It examines their nature and implications of their strategic competition in military, political and economic terms, as well as in relation to Taiwan, Japan, the ...
China's Rise - Threat or Opportunity?
1st Edition
Edited
By Herbert S. Yee
February 13, 2013
The phenomenal growth of Chinese economic and military power in the first decade of the 21st century has drawn world-wide attention. Perceptions of China's rise have shifted from seeing China as a threat to a more mixed view, where China is seen as playing a key role in economic recovery, taking an...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of China: The Search for Security
1st Edition
By Ian Storey
February 13, 2013
Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ...
Taiwan's Defense Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Edmonds, Michael M. Tsai
July 11, 2012
The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan continues to be one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. The technical superiority of the Taiwanese forces has been a major factor in maintaining balance, but as mainland China's armed forces modernize, Taiwan's advantages are being eroded. In ...
China's Security Interests in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Russell Ong
July 14, 2010
The collapse of communism in Europe, the quest for economic security and the War on Terror have all affected China's view of security matters. Ong provides a comprehensive study of the new policy and security challenges China faces in the coming years. Covering all of China's current...
Maritime Security in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kwa Kwa Chong Guan, John Skogan
August 06, 2009
This book confronts both the maritime security challenges and responses. In Southeast Asia, maritime security has, over the last twenty years, taken on a much greater importance, due to the Law of the Sea convention, which has resulted in a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). As well...