This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific
lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and
centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically
awkward as a description of the security of states and their
populations; it implies the loosening of state control and the
emergence of newly asserted authority by mixed constellations of
intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. It implies a
competition of agendas: threats to the integrity of borders and
human security threats such as natural disasters, airliner crashes,
and displacement by man-made pollution and food scarcity.
Conversely, polycentrism could also imply a return to a more
neo-realist oriented international order where great powers ignore
ASEAN and steer regional order according to their perceived
interests and relative military superiority. This book embraces
these contradictory trends as a foundation of analysis and accepts
that disorder can also be re-described from the perspective of
studied detachment as polycentric order.
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