Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order

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.

Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order: National Interests and Regional Order

Politics & Social Sciences

Tan, See Seng

Social Sciences

Routledge

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.

The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia

The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in the national security strategies of twelve countries and the ASEAN states, and their implications for security and stability in a broadly defined Asian security region that includes the Middle East. The study also investigates the prospects for nuclear terrorism in Asia. A chief conclusion of the study is that nuclear weapons influence national security strategies in fundamental ways and that deterrence continues to be the dominant role and strategy for the employment of nuclear weapons. Offensive and defensive strategies may increase in salience but will not surpass the deterrence function. Another major conclusion is that although there could be destabilizing situations, on balance, nuclear weapons have reinforced security and stability in the Asian security region by assuaging national security concerns, strengthening deterrence and the status quo, and preventing the outbreak and escalation of major hostilities. As nuclear weapons will persist and cast a long shadow on security in Asia and the world, it is important to reexamine and redefine "old" ideas, concepts, and strategies as well as develop "new" ones relevant to the contemporary era. In line with this, the global nuclear order should be constructed anew based on present realities.

History

James J. Wirtz

Michael J. Green

Katsuhisa Furukawa

Yuri Fedorov

Avner Cohen

Peter R. Lavoy

Kang Choi

Rod Lyon

Military

Stanford University Press

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.

The Legal Authority of ASEAN as a Security Institution (Integration through Law The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration, Series Number 17)

Rothwell, Donald R.

Nasu, Hitoshi

McLaughlin, Rob

Foreign & International Law

Cambridge University Press

Multilateral Asian Security Architecture: Non-ASEAN Stakeholders (Asian Security Studies)

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 ¾ Australia, Japan, China and the United States ¾ 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.

Reference

This book argues that states in Southeast Asia have begun to buck the long-held principle of nonintervention and started to display an increasing readiness to think about sovereignty - not only in terms of a state’s responsibility to its populations but also towards neighboring countries as well. Taking into account the realities of interstate cooperation in the region, Tan develops a new theoretical framework that reflects the evolution of attitudes about state sovereignty to explain this emerging ethic of regional responsibility.

The Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia: Towards an Ethical Explanation (Bristol Studies in East Asian International Relations)

Politics & Government

Policy Press

This illuminating volume critically surveys the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific. The author examines the purposes, practices, power relations and protagonists behind policy networks such as the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.

The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation (IIAS Publications series)

Amsterdam University Press

After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia

This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations of the terrorist threat in the region, assesses the efficacy of the regional counter-terror response and suggests a more balanced and nuanced approach to combating the terror threat in Southeast Asia. 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. This represents a formidable and unequalled combination of expertise.

Ramakrishna, Kumar

Asia

Co-Published with World Scientific

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