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Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Series Editor: Leszek Buszynski, William Tow

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.

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ASEAN Regionalism

Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

By Christopher B. Roberts

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

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...

Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security

Contending Cooperation

Edited by William Tow, Brendan Taylor

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation. They argue that multilateral associations such as ASEAN will eventually replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the...

Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat

By Arabinda Acharya

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks this book reassesses the effectiveness of the "War on Terror", considers how al-Qaeda and other jihadist movements are faring, explores the impact of wider developments in the Islamic world such as the Arab Spring, and discusses whether all this suggests that a new...

Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power

Between Rising Naval Powers

Edited by Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

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...

Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
Energy Security in Asia

Edited by Michael Wesley

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

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...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security

Edited by Brad Williams, Andrew Newman

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

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...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia

Managing Risk and Resilience

Edited by Lorraine Elliott, Mely Caballero-Anthony

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in...

Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
Regional Co-operation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia

The Impact of Domestic Forces

Edited by Edward Friedman, Sung Chull Kim

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

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...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia

Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Koh Swee Lean Collin

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all brought a renewed interest in nuclear energy. Nuclear power, however, is itself controversial, because of its costs, its environmental effects and the security...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
Maritime Challenges and Priorities in Asia

Implications for Regional Security

Edited by Joshua Ho, Sam Bateman

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Maritime issues are particularly important for Asian countries, where there is a high reliance on shipping routes for international trade, many difficult disputes over maritime boundaries, and the prospect of increasing tensions where maritime power might play a significant role. This book uses...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge