Abstract This paper traces the evolution of Japan-Southeast Asia security relations over the Cold War and the post-Cold War periods. It makes two main points.…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Summary The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in…
Summary In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore,…
Summary The major criticism of the ASEAN Community idea is its elitist approaches. It lacks the most crucial components that have brought about the success…
Summary This second edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia takes the excellent framework from Acharya’s first edition and brings it up-to-date, looking at ASEAN’s…
Summary Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation…
Summary Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures…
Summary Southeast Asia is on the cusp of joining the nuclear renaissance. Three countries in this region have announced plans for nuclear power, two others…
Summary The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
Summary In this paper, we explain why the U.S. government chose multilateral security arrangements in Europe and bilateral ones in Asia in the 1940s and…
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Summary India has espoused the notion of building ’South-South’ relations with other developing countries in recent years. The ASEAN countries, in particular, have come to…
Summary More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current…
Summary This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and…
Summary his book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between…
Summary Traditional friends and allies of the United States in East Asia acknowledge that a key determinant of stability in the region has been the…
