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From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the
major strategic themes and security challenges of the early
twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific
provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this
complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of
global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this
book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own
local security challenges in a wider regional and global context.
It is also for North American and European readers requiring an
understanding of the dynamic security developments in the
Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is
increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the
international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and
groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the
information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional
security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of
infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United
States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean
peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia
survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does
security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia
and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and
analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a
comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.
From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the
major strategic themes and security challenges of the early
twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific
provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this
complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of
global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this
book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own
local security challenges in a wider regional and global context.
It is also for North American and European readers requiring an
understanding of the dynamic security developments in the
Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is
increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the
international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and
groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the
information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional
security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of
infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United
States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean
peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia
survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does
security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia
and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and
analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a
comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.
This book provides an insight into the work of Thomas Schelling,
one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age.
By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States'
early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most
distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how
Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions
of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as
significant as superpower politics, Robert Ayson traces the way
this Harvard University professor built a unique intellectual
framework using a mix of social-scientific reasoning, from
economics to social theory and psychology. As such, this volume
offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual history which underpins
classical thinking on nuclear strategy and arms control - thinking
which still has an enormous influence in the early twenty-first
century. The reader is shown how Thomas Schelling's continuing
fascination with 'stability' - whereby war is either prevented from
occurring in the first place or controlled before catastrophe
strikes - is the master concept to unlocking his compelling
strategic universe. possible was nothing short of revolutionary.
But for Schelling the stalemate of the Korean War could also be
found in the superpower bargain of nuclear deterrence. As this book
shows, the first glimpses of this approach pre-date Schelling's
earliest study of military problems. In fact, stability was present
when he published his very first article - on national income
economics - in the 1940s. This book is unique in placing the
development of US strategic thought in the context of a broader
history of ideas. In unwrapping Thomas Schelling's ideas, it not
only helps us understand the intellectual horsepower behind the
'golden age' of nuclear strategy, but also says much about the
evolution of American social-scientific thinking in the twentieth
century. This is the first book-length treatment of the work of
Thomas Schelling and will be essential reading for all serious
students of strategic studies, international relations and
ancillary disciplines, such as the history of the social sciences,
Cold War history and the history of ideas.
Security threats in Asia fast become issues for the rest of the
world. This introductory and wide-ranging text on the subject takes
a thematic approach to assess how localized security issues - from
territorial rivalry to the rise of China - materialize as 'ripple
effects' across the whole region.
Security threats in Asia fast become issues for the rest of the
world. This introductory and wide-ranging text on the subject takes
a thematic approach to assess how localized security issues - from
territorial rivalry to the rise of China - materialize as 'ripple
effects' across the whole region.
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