Asian Security ReassessedStephen Hoadley, Jurgen Ruland Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006 - 381 pages 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. |
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... Armed Forces United Kingdom United Nations TAC TCOG TMD TNC TNI UK UN UNDP UNEP UNHCR UNSC USARPAC USSR WFP WHO WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction WTO World Trade Organization United Nations Development Programme United Nations Environment ...
... Armed Forces United Kingdom United Nations TAC TCOG TMD TNC TNI UK UN UNDP UNEP UNHCR UNSC USARPAC USSR WFP WHO WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction WTO World Trade Organization United Nations Development Programme United Nations Environment ...
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... armed conflicts and attendant famine or disease, and the damage has cost trillions of dollars. Another book on security is hardly superfluous but instead an additional asset in the search for a less lethal and destructive way of ...
... armed conflicts and attendant famine or disease, and the damage has cost trillions of dollars. Another book on security is hardly superfluous but instead an additional asset in the search for a less lethal and destructive way of ...
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... armed conflicts registered between 1945 and the present , nearly one - third took place in Asia . Two of the deadliest among them were fought in Asia . More than three million people died in the Korean War ( 1950–53 ) and over two ...
... armed conflicts registered between 1945 and the present , nearly one - third took place in Asia . Two of the deadliest among them were fought in Asia . More than three million people died in the Korean War ( 1950–53 ) and over two ...
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... armed conflict , and the surging of illegal migrants from one country to another . Then there are familiar security threats presented in new guise . These include inter - state military rivalries — those between North and South Korea ...
... armed conflict , and the surging of illegal migrants from one country to another . Then there are familiar security threats presented in new guise . These include inter - state military rivalries — those between North and South Korea ...
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... armed separatism, economic slowdown or recession, drug addiction, illegal immigration, and religious extremism and racial strife; they included “political, socio-cultural, psychological and economic dimensions — thus emphasizing the ...
... armed separatism, economic slowdown or recession, drug addiction, illegal immigration, and religious extremism and racial strife; they included “political, socio-cultural, psychological and economic dimensions — thus emphasizing the ...
Contents
35 | |
NonTraditional Challenges to Asian Security | 169 |
New Concepts of Asian Security | 309 |
Index | 369 |
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Page 68 - Article 9.Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat 151 or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
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