Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific

ISBN-13: 9781741147988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 343 str.

Robert Ayson; Desmond Ball

Opis

Unlocking the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early 21st century, this book 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, it provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the dynamic security developments in the region, around which much global strategy is based. Vital questions facing the international community are addressed, including why governments and groups still use armed force, how much warfare has changed in the information age, why countries should be concerned about nontraditional security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of infectious disease, whether a great clash between the United States and China is imminent, the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula and between India and Pakistan, and what security means for Pacific Island countries, Australia, and New Zealand.

Spis treści

Part One: Strategy and Security Today

1. Studying Strategy Today (Hugh White)

2. Concepts for Strategy and Security (Robert Ayson)

3. The International System and Changing Strategic Norms (Coral Bell)

4. Contemporary Military Operations (Michael Evans)

5. Defence Transformation (David Connery and Alan Stephens)

6. Terrorism (Clive Williams)

7. Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Christian Enemark)

8. Transnational Security (Alan Dupont)

9. Human Security and Intervention (Ramesh Thakur)

10. Economics and Security (Brendan Taylor and Bruce Luckham)

11. Critical Approaches to Security and Strategy (Anthony Burke)

Part Two: Asia-Pacific Strategic and Security Issues

12. America and the Asia-Pacific Region (Paul Dibb)

13. Northeast Asian Security Challenges (Ron Huisken)

14. Southeast Asian Security Challenges (David Wright-Neville)

15. South Asian Security Challenges (Sandy Gordon

O autorze

Robert Ayson is Senior Fellow and Desmond Ball is Special Professor at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.