The quest for oil can be seen as a defining principle of global US foreign policy, an imperative which has shaped and redefined the practice of American diplomacy, especially in the wake of 9/11, which raised questions about the stability of global oil resources. In "Energy and US Foreign Policy", Ahmed Mahdi relates the military expansion of the world's biggest superpower to its quest to gain …
The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors …
The year book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the security environment in South Asia. International focus on the region and its increasing engagement by the comity of nations are ample indications of its emergence as the next power center in global politics. And yet, while it continues to grow in economic, industrial and military potential, its peculiar security environment, ridden …
The Report prepared at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (now the Department of Strategic Research/Polish Institute of International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is the first such relatively comprehensive analysis of the external determinants of Poland's national security supplemented by an examination of some of the internal aspects. The time-frame of the Report (to spr…
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 contents of this book: Part 1 Intermediate States, Regional Leadership and Security: Analytical Frameworks Part 2 IBSA in the Context of Global Security: National Perspective Part 3 Regional Security Contexts Part 4 Defence Policies and Prospects for Cooperation
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The mandate 3. Preamble 4. Article 1: Basic obligation 5. Article 2: The organization 6. Article 3: National implementation measures etc.
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.
A path-breaking collaboration between an Israeli arms control expert and a Jordanian policy advisor, this concise book offers a frank assessment of Arab and Israeli perceptions of their security problems. Building on the bilateral and multilateral peace process, the authors propose a set of measures to increase trust between the two sides and break out of the security dilemma in which a move by…
Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the international dynamics of Southeast Asian security, and its impact on such external factors as the US, China and Japan.