Security and defence" provides a comprehensive in-depth study of Australia and the Asia--Pacific region, with a fresh approach which counters the traditional Euro- and American-centric view of strategy and defence in this part of the world. It deals with three broad issues of concern: * Global issues: the future of the nuclear strategic balance between the super-powers, the development of non-p…
Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own local security challenges in a wider regional and global context. It is also for North Amer…
In the early 1970s, the Middle East began arming itself with the windfall profits from oil price increases. Now Asia, with its newfound affluence as the world's lowest-cost and highest-quality manufacturer, is devoting much of its windfall profits to arms. Growth and emerging energy shortages are giving birth to dangerous new tensions. These build on ancient antagonisms, the residue of the Cold…
Asia Pacific Readings in International Economic Relations describes the main historical, theoretical and policy developments leading to closer economic integration and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. With an introduction to the issues by Ross Garnaut and Peter Drysdale, this book brings together a representative part of the literature that has emerged from analysis of Asia Pacific regio…
The Gulf crisis has once again drawn attention to the volatility of the worlds largest industry. Even in its aftermath, trends in the world oil market are unclear. Global Oil Trends provides a detailed assessment and long-term perspective of the global oil market in general and the Asia-Pacific market in particular. The 1990 oil crisis is reviewed and the possible impact of growing environmenta…
In many ways, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is a microcosm of the Singapore brand of government. The DNA of Singapore's policymaking is its forward-looking nature. S. Rajaratnam's trademark is taking the long view while Lee Kuan Yew articulated his wish for leadership foresight and the admiration for 'helicopter quality' candidates in policymaking. This was how RSIS' …
The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by the term "globalisation". Together with the communications revolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation of global space. It is illustrated by technological change, pronounced economic growth, the dominance of giant corporations, ever more open markets and universal consumption. Dramatic developments have o…
Open Regionalism is regional economic co-operation without discrimination against countries outside the region. The concept grew from the experience of rapid growth, and expanding trade and investment across national borders, in East Asia and the Pacific. It became the guiding idea of Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation. It is now recognized as being the means through which the growing appeal of…
The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon focuses on the vocabulary of Asia-Pacific security, mainly as it developed in the creative decade of the 1990s. The goals is to dissect thirty-four ideas and concepts that have been at the core of debates about multilateral security co-operation.
Contents: Part I - Defining impact of the APEC process - Human security in the APEC region - Needs for a human securty surveillance system Part II - Human security issues and surveillance economic indicators - Indicators for redistribution of economic benefits towards health security - Human security issues and surveillance indicator food, etc.