Asian Security Studies

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11. US-China-EU Relations

    Managing the New World Order

    Edited by Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, Zhang Tuosheng

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics. Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future...

    Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
12. Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia

    States, Security and Non-State Actors

    By Ryan Clarke

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has...

    Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
13. Managing the China Challenge

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Quansheng Zhao, Guoli Liu

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This edited volume addresses one of the most significant issues in international strategic studies today: how to meet the challenge of a rising China? The contributors take a global view of the topic, offering unique and often controversial perspectives on the nature of the China challenge. The...

    Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
14. Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

    Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, S. Paul Kapur

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment. The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the world’s foremost security concerns. The effect of nuclear weapons on the behaviour of newly nuclear states, and the...

    Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
15. Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation

    The Case of India-Pakistan

    By Saira Khan

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict. The book argues that the significance of the possession of nuclear weapons in conflict resolution has been previously overlooked. Saira Khan argues that the acquisition of nuclear...

    Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
16. China, the United States, and South-East Asia

    Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics

    Edited by Sheldon W. Simon, Evelyn Goh

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, affecting the political, security, and economic affairs of all states that comprise the world’s fastest developing region of the Asia-Pacific. Most of...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
17. South Asia's Cold War

    Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

    By Rajesh M. Basrur

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals. Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United States-China, Soviet Union-China, and United...

    Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge
18. China's War on Terrorism

    Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security

    By Martin I. Wayne

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    China’s war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatens the government’s grip on a massive region of north- western China known as Xinjiang. Riots, bombings, ambushes, and assassinations have rocked the...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
19. Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia

    Third-party Mediation in Regional Conflict

    Edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Kwei-Bo Huang, Chung-Chian Teng

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world’s conflict flashpoints, such as the Korean Peninsula and the China-Taiwan Strait. In particular, the book will elaborate on the following themes: general and NGO...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
20. Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making

    Confucianism, Leadership and War

    By Huiyun Feng

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    Examining the major academic and policy debates over China’s rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China. Most of the scholarly works on China’s rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge