Presents selected works of Michael Leifer, the doyen of Southeast Asia Studies, who died in 2001. This book includes works on the Southeast Asia region - ASEAN, regional order and conflict, great power policies towards the region, maritime security in Southeast Asia, and studies of the domestic policies of individual Southeast Asia countries.
Regional Powers and Small State Security recounts India's involvement in the affairs of its much smaller neighbor, Sri Lanka, over the question of Tamil separatists in the northern and eastern parts of the island.
Analyzing some of the major influences on foreign and security policy in India, this synthesis of insights assesses emerging global scenarios from an Indian perspective and details their likely impact on India's current and future national interests. This study first uses the Net Assessment method to detail the scenarios_that the country will face in 2020 and then utilizes a transparent method …
This collection canvasses the current requirements of T achieving and consolidating peace in the Asia Pacific region, from the special perspectives of two 'outsiders' in the region, Australia and Japan. It explores the strategic, political, economic and cultural dimensions of peace building, with special emphasis on ASEAN and APEC, and concludes that Japan's role as indispensable economic hub a…
This monograph includes the discussion papers presented at the First Meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Maritime Coopera- tion Working Group held in Kuala Lumpur 2-3 June 1995.
The central objective of this study is to describe and analyse the politics of security policy change in Japan and its significance to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
"This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of ASEAN's norms and the viability of the ASEAN Way of conflict management. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics."
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…
This book, entitled Asia Pacific After The Cold War, presents a com- pilation of papers written by Jusuf Wanandi from 1989 to 1996. Of the papers compiled, some were presented at conferences, seminars as well as at workshops in various countries, and the others are revised articles already published in newspapers and journals. This compilation is of interest because it does not only contain iss…