Strategies of Survival examines how smaller Asian states navigate the complex realities of international politics amid pressure from major powers. Morrison and Suhrke analyze the diplomatic challenges, security concerns, and strategic responses adopted by Southeast Asian nations during the Cold War era. The book highlights patterns of alignment, balancing, and foreign policy adaptation as these…
The book includes two topical chapters discussing the North Korean crisis and terrorism in Southeast Asia as well as a general South Asia paper. Also presents country perspectives from ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) member countries, based on background papers written in almost all cases by nationals of the countries concerned. The aim is to increase understanding of each other's viewpoints among s…
The Asia Pacific Security Outlook seeks to contribute to this search by monitoring perceptions of threats to national security, national defense doctrines and issues, and national contributions to regional and global security. It differs from other current annual security overviews in that it has been developed on the basis of background papers prepared by analysts from the region itself, each …
In Threats to Security in East Asia-Pacific, this more comprehensive analysis is provided. The outgrowth of a Pacific Forum symposium, the book reports the results of Interviews and discussions with area political and academic leaders on their nations' threat perceptions and security policies. U.S. and Asian scholars then 7 examine these reports and determine how foreign governments ought to ch…