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Book Synopsis The ASEAN Regional Forum by : Rodolfo Severino
Download or read book The ASEAN Regional Forum written by Rodolfo Severino and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is the only Asia-Pacific-wide forum for consultations and dialogue on political and security issues. Although many articles and books have been published on the ARF, this is one of the few books that treat the forum comprehensively and from the standpoint of the region itself. It traces the ARF's origins, the efforts to move it from confidence building to "preventive diplomacy," and the forces that hold them back, analysing the strategic environment that both constrains the ARF and makes it essential. The book discusses the question of participation, describes the numerous cooperative activities that the participants undertake, and deals with the issue of institutionalization. Finally, it assesses the ARF as a forum and a process on its own terms. The book is written by the former ASEAN Secretary-General and former senior official who was involved in the ARF's early years.
Book Synopsis Asian Security Reassessed by : Stephen Hoadley
Download or read book Asian Security Reassessed written by Stephen Hoadley and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. It surveys not only orthodox security threats such as tensions between regional powers or armed ethnic antagonists but also new sources of anxiety such as resource scarcity, economic instability, irregular migration, community fragmentation, and international terrorism. Security policies of major powers such as China, Japan, and the United States, and the moderating roles of regional organizations such as ASEAN, ARF, SCO, and KEDO are evaluated in historical and contemporary perspectives. Contributors proffer policy-relevant insights where appropriate. The book concludes that traditional security approaches remain valid but need to be adapted to the new challenges, and offers suggestions for incorporating fresh Asian security perceptions into the agendas of policy-makers, analysts, and scholars.
Book Synopsis US Department of State Dispatch by :
Download or read book US Department of State Dispatch written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advancing East Asian Regionalism by : Melissa Curley
Download or read book Advancing East Asian Regionalism written by Melissa Curley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances. Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks at the ways in which ASEAN has expanded since the crisis, and evaluates the potential of East Asia to come together in a regional formation - one capable of representing the region as a whole - akin to the European Community. It draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of academics and policy makers actively engaged in the contradictory issues of regionalism. Coupling case study material on regionalism, institutions, and sectoral cooperation, with theoretical debates on regionalization, this book is an invaluable resource that pushes our understanding of East Asian regionalism forward.
Book Synopsis Remapping East Asia by : T. J. Pempel
Download or read book Remapping East Asia written by T. J. Pempel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long history of internal divisiveness, war, and conflict, and it remains the site of several nettlesome territorial disputes. However, a mixture of complex and often competing agents and processes has been knitting together various segments of East Asia. In Remapping East Asia, T. J. Pempel suggests that the region is ripe for cooperation rather than rivalry and that recent "region-building" developments in East Asia have had a substantial cumulative effect on the broader canvas of international politics. This collection is about the people, processes, and institutions behind that region-building. In it, experts on the area take a broad approach to the dynamics and implications of regionalism. Instead of limiting their focus to security matters, they extend their discussions to topics as diverse as the mercurial nature of Japan's leadership role in the region, Southeast Asian business networks, the war on terrorism in Asia, and the political economy of environmental regionalism. Throughout, they show how nation-states, corporations, and problem-specific coalitions have furthered regional cohesion not only by establishing formal institutions, but also by operating informally, semiformally, or even secretly.
Book Synopsis Air Force Report by : United States. Department of the Air Force
Download or read book Air Force Report written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Bali written by Kumar Ramakrishna and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations of the terrorist threat in the region, assesses the efficacy of the regional counter-terror response and suggests a more balanced and nuanced approach to combating the terror threat in Southeast Asia. The contributors include leading scholars of political Islam in the region, renowned terrorism and regional security analysts, as well as highly regarded regional journalists and commentators. This represents a formidable and unequalled combination of expertise.
Book Synopsis The Regional Organizations of the Asia Pacific by : M. Wesley
Download or read book The Regional Organizations of the Asia Pacific written by M. Wesley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines change within the major regional organisations of the Asia Pacific: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). It has two simultaneous foci: the nature of institutional change in regional organisations, and the process of regionalism in the Asia Pacific. It combines the views of both officials and practitioners, providing new insights into both its major questions.
Book Synopsis Thailand Royal Air Force Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Weapon Systems by : IBP, Inc.
Download or read book Thailand Royal Air Force Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Weapon Systems written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Thailand Air Force Handbook
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1532 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (42 download)
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for 1981 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1516 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for 1981: General provisions and language by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1981: General provisions and language written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Relations in Southeast Asia by : Donald E. Weatherbee
Download or read book International Relations in Southeast Asia written by Donald E. Weatherbee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced, comprehensive guide to Southeast Asian politics offers a sensible but nondogmatic realist approach to the region's international relations. In this revised, second edition, Donald E. Weatherbee lucidly explains the dynamics of the Southeast Asian subsystem as a struggle for autonomy in pursuit of national interests. He explores three important questions, the answers to which will shape the future Southeast Asia. Will democratic regimes transform international relations in Southeast Asia? Will national leaders succeed in reinventing ASEAN as a more effective collaborative mechanism? Finally, how will the evolving Chinese position, balancing and perhaps displacing the United States as Asia's great power, affect Southeast Asia's struggle for autonomy?
Book Synopsis Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia by : Chih-Mao Tang
Download or read book Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia written by Chih-Mao Tang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few decades, Southeast Asia has become generally more peaceful and more prosperous, with progress in economic development, regional cooperation and integration. ASEAN in particular plays a leading role within and beyond the region in promoting multilateral cooperation in both security and economic matters. All these developments progress amid increasing hegemonic competition between the US and China for regional dominance in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the realist viewpoint of international politics, Southeast Asian states can do nothing but choose sides at the expense of international political autonomy in order to maintain their national interests. Tang argues, however, that in fact there exists an opportunity for Southeast Asian states to simultaneously reinforce their military security, economic development and international political autonomy in face of the US-China hegemonic competition. Drawing on the ideas of power transition theory and recent works of capitalist peace, Tang argues that small states can exploit the competition between great powers to make economic gains and ensure security while maintaining their autonomy. He outlines the necessity of cooperation among these small states and of economic liberalization for the effectiveness of this reinforcing dynamics, applying policy and econometric analyses to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data.
Download or read book Rising Star written by Bates Gill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers are still trying to comprehend these critical changes. Rising Star provides a coherent framework for understanding China's new security diplomacy and guiding America's China policy. Bates Gill has completely updated his original analysis, focusing on Chinese policy in three areas: regional security mechanisms, nonproliferation and arms control, and questions of sovereignty and intervention. Looking to the future, he offers specific recommendations for a balanced and realistic approach that emphasizes what China and the United States have in common, rather than what divides them. The main arguments and recommendations of the original book continue to hold true and, in many respects, are more compelling now than ever before given China's continued ascendancy.
Book Synopsis Constructing Regional Security by : W. Durch
Download or read book Constructing Regional Security written by W. Durch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book William Durch examines conventional weapons proliferation since World War II, the role of arms transfers in fueling regional conflict, and prospects for curbing the global arms trade. Noting that supply side arms control efforts, which seek to constrain the companies and countries that produce and distribute major conventional weapons, have a poor international track record, Durch argues for a broader approach that tries to get at the demand side of the equation. Addressing the political and regional dynamics that impel arms acquisitions, he looks at how arms control might be combined with confidence and security-building measures to contain demand, and how value-based arms trade control measures like 'codes of conduct' could be implemented in stepwise fashion consistent with US national interests in regional stability.
Book Synopsis West of Malatia by : Sarkis J. Eminian
Download or read book West of Malatia written by Sarkis J. Eminian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of Malatia begins around the turn of the Twentieth Century when Armenian refugees settled in Newburgh. By 1920 many had married and Armenian families began to form. In 1926 five young men were born to the families in one of the Clans. "The Boys of '26" were the first-born sons of a Clan of seven families. This is their story. "Bird Legs" Dadaian jumped higher than Michael Jordan ever imagined one day. Led by Sam Sisian, grape leaf picking was an annual event that sent our caravans on a hunt for the finest grape leaves. There was Jim who came from the hobo fires in Harvard gulley to play ball until September when they disappeared. There was Garo Mesrobian in Pete's basement, kneeling by a homemade Still, sipping "White Lightning" (Armenian Rachi). Mano, The Keeper of the Skewers, prepares Shish Kebob while puzzled "Odars" look on. No one knew the lady on Claasen. As a fifteen year old, Turvan eluding Turks discovers her baby brother is dead after carrying him on her back for days. There were leaders like Khosrof Esayian who is remembered, and older leaders like Harry Johnson who is long since forgotten. Stories that took a lifetime to tell.
Book Synopsis Maritime Security by : Natalie Klein
Download or read book Maritime Security written by Natalie Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume identifies those issues that affect Australia and New Zealand’s maritime security, evaluating the issues from legal and political perspectives, as well as examining the issues within the broad framework of international law and politics. The book also addresses considerations in the Pacific, Asian and Antarctic regions.
