Overview
- Examines Asian security using a holistic thematic framework
- Offers a wealth of 'grounded' experience to this area of academic scholarship
- Many of the authors are practitioners in the field
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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 fromthe perspective of studied detachment as polycentric order.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Great Powers: Going their Own Way or Tempering Rivalry with Some Reference to ASEAN?
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Defence Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific
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Non-Traditional Security Threats as Security Interdependence and the Challenge to Military Missions in East Asia
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alan Chong is Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He has published widely on the notion of soft power and the role of ideas in constructing the international relations of Singapore and Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Security in the Asia-Pacific
Book Subtitle: Transcending ASEAN towards Transitional Polycentrism
Editors: Alan Chong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60762-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60761-0Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86928-5Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60762-7Published: 13 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 429
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour