Security politics in the Asia-Pacific : a regional-global nexus? /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009.
Description:xvi, 370 p.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8209203
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Other authors / contributors:Tow, William T.
ISBN:9780521765350 (hardback)
9780521758826 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Setting the context
  • Part I. 2. Grappling with an elusive concept
  • 3. Asia-Pacific institutions
  • 4. The United States: regional strategies and global commitments
  • 5. A rising China and American perturbations
  • Part II. 6. Hegemony, hierarchy and order
  • 7. Democracy and security in East Asia
  • 8. Security community-building in Asia-Pacific
  • 9. Human security and global governance
  • 10. The economics-security nexus in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Part III. 11. Problematising 'linkages' between Southeast Asian and international terrorism
  • 12. Nuclear weapons: Asian case studies and global ramifications
  • 13. Maritime security: regional concerns and global implications
  • 14. Thinking globally and acting regionally: securitising energy and environment
  • 15. Regional health and global security: the Asian cradle of pandemic influenza
  • Part IV. 16. The new transregional security politics of the Asia-Pacific