Dr. David Lai provides a timely assessment of the geostrategic significance of Asia-Pacific. His monograph is also a thought-provoking analysis of the U.S. strategic shift toward the region and its implications. Dr. Lai judiciously offers the following key points. First, Asia-Pacific, which covers China, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, is a region with complex currents. On the one hand, the…
This is a collection of opinion pieces written by Ooi Kee Beng and published in the mass media after Abdullah Badawi became Malaysia's Prime Minister in October 2004. The articles analyse the many difficult aspects of leadership that have been facing Abdullah Badawi over the last two years. The book discusses the country's underlying problems, the dilemma involved in succeeding Mahathir Mohamad…
Regional relations in South Asia have always been afflicted by the movements of people across territorial boundaries of the states. Rapidly growing dimensions of refugee flows during the past decades have seriously affected security and stability of both the refugee generating as well as receiving states. This is one of the first studies of how refugee flows have vitiated security environment i…
The fourth edition of Southeast Asia in the New International Era updates the region at a time of critical change. In the 1990s, Southeast Asia was known as an area of stability and movement toward development and democracy. At the beginning of the millennium, many of the region's nations are undergoing rapid change that belies the standard perception of stability. Since January 2000, Indonesia…
In international relations today, influence is a essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies.
This text explores the regional roles and relationships of major powers with regard to the Asia Pacific region. It provides the context of various approaches to understanding international relations, and against this background, considers the roles of the US, China, Japan and Russia.
He book combines the study of contemporary and historical practices between Asia and Europe. It focuses on the academic, social and cultural connections between the two regions. The contributions in this volume have a contemporary focus but contextualise the themes within a historical perspective.
In line with recent reviews of policy by Aung San Suu Kyi and the U.S. Government, ASEAN's Myanmar Crisis: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community provides a clear and innovative analysis of why it is necessary to reassess regional and international approaches to Myanmar. For the first time, this book also reveals the full extent to which Myanmar has challenged the solidarity and deve…
Papers read at a workshop on Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security held on December 8, 1996 in Karachi
The thread that binds the three speeches is the argument that the war against terrorism must be simultaneously fought on the ideological and geopolitical front. This war cannot be won by military might alone. Everyone in the civilised world Muslims and non-Muslims alike must unite and fight the common enemy the jihadist who have propagated violence and terror in the name of Islam. The United St…