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This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and
ideational contributions of five countries to the regional
architecture of post-Cold War Asia. In contrast to the usual
emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia's multilateral architecture
and its component institutions, this book argues that the four
non-ASEAN countries of interest here 3/4 Australia, Japan, China
and the United States 3/4 and Indonesia have played and continue to
play an influential part in determining the shape and substance of
Asian multilateralism from its pre-inception to the present. The
work does not contend that existing scholarship overstates ASEAN's
significance to the successes and failures of Asia's multilateral
enterprise. Rather, it claims that the impact of non-ASEAN
stakeholders in innovating multilateral architecture in Asia has
been understated. Whether ASEAN has fared well or poorly as a
custodian of Asia's regional architecture, the fact remains that
the countries considered here, notwithstanding their present
discontent over the state of that architecture, are key to
understanding the evolution of Asian multilateralism. This book
will be of much interest to students of Asian politics,
international organisations, security studies and IR more
generally.
New developments in the Asia Pacific are forcing regional officials
to rethink the way they manage security issues. The contributors to
this work explore why some forms of security cooperation and
institutionalisation in the region have proven more feasible than
others. This work describes the emergence of the professions in
late tsarist Russia and their struggle for autonomy from the
aristocratic state. It also examines the ways in which the Russian
professions both resembled and differed from their Western
counterparts.
New developments in the Asia-Pacific call for a review of our
current understanding of the security order in the region. These
developments are forcing regional elites to rethink and alter, in
varying degrees, the way they manage security issues. Against this
backdrop of regional transition, contributors to this volume
explore: why some forms of security cooperation and
institutionalization in the Asia-Pacific have proven more feasible
than others; bilateral security cooperation and emerging
multilateral structures; and factors needed to develop
complementary relationships between states. Patterns of change and
continuity in regional security management and cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific are identified and analyzed in this book. Asia-Pacific
region from the Cold War through the post-Cold War to the current
post-September 11 era. The chapters in Part II provide
country-based perspectives on how the nine Asia-Pacific nations
have evolved in their thinking and approach to security management
from the Cold War to the present. The security strategies of
countries examined include those of major powers in the region
(United States, China, Australia, and Japan), middle/sub-regional
powers (Indonesia, Philippines, and South Korea), and finally small
states (Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore).
This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a
systematic, substantive and comparative manner. The contributions
assess similarities and differences between the EU and its Asian
partners with respect to levels of threat perception, policy
response and security cooperation in the context of historical,
institutional and external factors - such as the influence of the
United States. The book presents original empirical research
organised in four parts: a number of contributions providing
discussions of the global context in which EU-Asia security
relations develop; a series of chapters covering the range of
dimensions of EU-Asian security, including both traditional and
non-military aspects of security; chapters addressing the specific
issues touching on bilateral relations between the EU and its
partners in the Asia-Pacific region; and a final part presenting
the overall findings across the various contributions together with
the future outlook for EU-Asia security relations.
Despite the long-held and jealously guarded ASEAN principle of
non-intervention, this innovative and theoretically rich book
argues that states in Southeast Asia have begun to display an
increasing readiness to think about sovereignty in terms not only
of state responsibility to their own populations but also towards
neighbouring countries as well.
This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a
systematic, substantive and comparative manner. The contributions
assess similarities and differences between the EU and its Asian
partners with respect to levels of threat perception, policy
response and security cooperation in the context of historical,
institutional and external factors - such as the influence of the
United States. The book presents original empirical research
organised in four parts: a number of contributions providing
discussions of the global context in which EU-Asia security
relations develop; a series of chapters covering the range of
dimensions of EU-Asian security, including both traditional and
non-military aspects of security; chapters addressing the specific
issues touching on bilateral relations between the EU and its
partners in the Asia-Pacific region; and a final part presenting
the overall findings across the various contributions together with
the future outlook for EU-Asia security relations.
This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and
ideational contributions of five countries to the regional
architecture of post-Cold War Asia. In contrast to the usual
emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia's multilateral architecture
and its component institutions, this book argues that the four
non-ASEAN countries of interest here 3/4 Australia, Japan, China
and the United States 3/4 and Indonesia have played and continue to
play an influential part in determining the shape and substance of
Asian multilateralism from its pre-inception to the present. The
work does not contend that existing scholarship overstates ASEAN's
significance to the successes and failures of Asia's multilateral
enterprise. Rather, it claims that the impact of non-ASEAN
stakeholders in innovating multilateral architecture in Asia has
been understated. Whether ASEAN has fared well or poorly as a
custodian of Asia's regional architecture, the fact remains that
the countries considered here, notwithstanding their present
discontent over the state of that architecture, are key to
understanding the evolution of Asian multilateralism. This book
will be of much interest to students of Asian politics,
international organisations, security studies and IR more
generally.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has achieved
deeper regional market integration to lay a socio-economic
foundation for the development of a regional community, yet
inter-state trust is by no means assured as Southeast Asian nations
remain steadfast in maintaining their political regime stability
against external interference. However, through its institutional
practices, ASEAN has emerged as a distinct model of security
institution, while the region's contemporary security landscape has
diversified with various non-traditional security issues. By
looking beyond the veneer of diplomacy and prevailing political
circumstances, this book examines the legal nature and form of
ASEAN's authority to address diverse regional security issues. It
provides a fresh perspective on ASEAN's role as a security
institution. With an interdisciplinary analysis, this book reveals
the normative role that ASEAN plays in facilitating the processes
of norm development, localisation and internalisation as it deals
with contemporary security challenges confronting Southeast Asia.
This book is the first to deal with the specific threat of
terrorism in Southeast Asia after the Bali blasts of 12 October
2002, and in the wake of the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a
comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological nature,
sociopolitical motivations, trans-regional linkages, geographic
loci and functional characteristics of the terrorist threat in the
region. The contributors include leading scholars of political
Islam in the region, renowned terrorism and regional security
analysts, as well as highly regarded regional journalists and
commentators from two of Asia's top think tanks--the Institute of
Defence and Strategic Studies and the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, both based in Singapore. This represents a formidable and
hitherto unequalled combination of expertise.
This book is the first to deal with the specific threat of
terrorism in Southeast Asia after the Bali blasts of 12 October
2002, and in the wake of the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a
comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological nature,
sociopolitical motivations, trans-regional linkages, geographic
loci and functional characteristics of the terrorist threat in the
region. The contributors include leading scholars of political
Islam in the region, renowned terrorism and regional security
analysts, as well as highly regarded regional journalists and
commentators from two of Asia's top think tanks--the Institute of
Defence and Strategic Studies and the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, both based in Singapore. This represents a formidable and
hitherto unequalled combination of expertise.
The 1955 Asia-Africa conference (the ""Bandung Conference"") was a
meeting of 29 Asian and African nations that sought to draw on
Asian and African nationalism and religious traditions to forge a
new international order that was neither communist nor capitalist,
and led six years later to the non-aligned movement. Few would
dispute the notion that the inaugural meeting in 1955 was a
watershed in international history, but there is much disagreement
about its long-term legacy and its significance for present-day
international affairs. Was it a post-colonial ideological reaction
to the passing of the age of empire or an innovative effort to
promote a new regionalism? Were its principles of peaceful
coexistence a rhetorical flourish or a substantive policy
initiative? Did the Conference help define North-South relations?
And in what way did the Conference contribute to the regional order
of contemporary Asia?The authors in the present volume argue that
the Bandung Conference had a lasting normative influence on the
contemporary regional order of Asia, and that it underlies the
diplomatic principles and loosely defined normative framework that
characterize present-day Asian international relations.
Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around
the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to
make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarly
literature, this new four-volume collection from Routledgea (TM)s
Critical Issues in Modern Politics series brings together the best
and most influential work in the field.It is destined to be valued
by scholars, students, and researchers of Asian international
relations, politics, history, and current affairs as a vital
resource.
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