"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."
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…
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…
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 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.
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.
The book includes two topical chapters discussing the North Korean crisis and terrorism in Southeast Asia as well as a general South Asia paper. Also presents country perspectives from ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) member countries, based on background papers written in almost all cases by nationals of the countries concerned. The aim is to increase understanding of each other's viewpoints among s…
On 12 November 1995 CSIS in conjunction with Australian Defence Studies Centre (ADSC), Canberra organised a workshop on "Potential Linkages between Economic and Regional Security Fora". The papers presented at the workshop have been edited and compiled in this volume entitled The Role of Security and Economic Cooperation Structures in the Asia Pacific Region Indonesian and Australian Views This…
The regional economic crisis of 1997 greatly affected Southeast Asia, with Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia grappling with economic and currencies. In Indonesia, in particular, the consequences of the crisis have been far-reaching and traumatic. Indeed, the aftermath of the crisis has placed into focus such issues as the impact of globalisation on security, the subject of gover…