This book examines the areas of comprehensive security and the growing understanding between India and Southeast Asia where there less divergence and greater convergence. The author argues that India-Southeast Asia security convergence is not and should not be aimed at any particular country. On an optimistic note he concludes that such convergence will contribute to creating harmony among the …
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is the only Asia-Pacific wide forum for consultations and dialogue on political and security issues. This book presented the forum comprehensively and from the standpoint of the region itself. It traces the ARF's origins, the efforts to move it from confidence building to "preventive diplomacy", and the forces that hold them back, analysing the strategic environme…
Tiger's roar identifies the major challenges facing Asia's four tigers (Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong), Japan, China, and their Shoutheast Asian neighboars (notably Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the philippines) as the region increases its role and stature on the world stage.
I was twenty. A wintry dawn filled the sky above the low buildings of Shino-In, a small Buddhist temple forming part of the main monastery complex of the Shingon sect situated at the top of Mount Koya in Japan. In the silent room of tatami mats, plastered walls and paper windows, beside my futon, my tea, left in a cup from the night before, had frozen solid. I had not slept much; it had been to…
This book is not a traditional symposium in which each writer submits a chapter or chapters on a particular geographical area of the region. Rather, it is a work in which each scholar can take equal pride in the entire production because it was a joint intellectual pursuit.
This report, jointly sponsored by SIPRI and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), draws together the work of eight experts on armaments and Asia-Pacific security affairs to present analysis and extensive data on arms and defence related tranparency mechanisms in South-East Asia. It also includes a de facto arms trade re gister for South-East Asia covering the period 1975-96. The book will …
This stimulating book calls attention to the growth of an inefficient superlayer in the economies of South-East Asia and invites the reader to think about the problems this poses to economic development in the future. The author argues that technological backwardness, the low quality of government intervention, and discrimination against those pf Chinese descent have prevented capitalism from s…
Events since 11 September 2001 have dramatically altered the security environment in the Muslim world and in Southeast Asia in particular. With the uncovering of an extensive terrorist network in Southeast Asia, the region has emerged as a major battleground in the global war on terrorism. Yet the issues raised by political Islam in Southeast Asia are much broader than the problem of terrorism.…