Asian Security Studies

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21. The Rise of China and International Security

    America and Asia Respond

    Edited by Kevin J. Cooney, Yoichiro Sato

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
22. India and Counterinsurgency

    Lessons Learned

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, David P. Fidler

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
23. Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War

    The Last Maoist War

    By Edward C. O'Dowd

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events. The Sino-Vietnamese War was the third Indochina war, and contemporary Southeast Asia cannot be properly understood unless...

    Published March 4th 2009 by Routledge
24. Asia-Pacific Security

    US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle

    Edited by William Tow, Mark Thomson, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Satu Limaye

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    The aim of this book is to explore the implications stemming from the recent upgrading of Australia-Japan-US security interactions and the implications for Asia-Pacific regional security that these represent. While a fully functioning trilateral security alliance binding Australia, Japan and...

    Published December 9th 2008 by Routledge
25. Taiwan's Security

    History and Prospects

    By Bernard Cole

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan’s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan’s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations. This book provides crucial base-line data and evaluation of one of...

    Published September 30th 2008 by Routledge
26. US Taiwan Policy

    Constructing the Triangle

    By Øystein Tunsjø

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions across the Taiwan Strait. This book is the first to attempt to trace the historical origin of what is known as the ‘Taiwan issue’ in...

    Published February 17th 2008 by Routledge
27. Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia

    By Zachary Abuza

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world. Indonesia is a country long known for its diversity and tolerant brand of Islam. However, since the fall of Suharto, a more intolerant form of Islam...

    Published October 6th 2007 by Routledge
28. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia

    Disrupting Violence

    Edited by Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent...

    Published September 20th 2007 by Routledge
29. China and International Institutions

    Alternate Paths to Global Power

    By Marc Lanteigne

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power...

    Published September 20th 2007 by Routledge
30. Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States

    Institutional Incentives, Myths and Counter-Balancing

    By Brian Shoup

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    Interethnic competition in plural societies is often characterized by a ‘counterbalance’ of political and economic strength between different groups. In such cases, tensions emerge as politically dominant groups fear loss of hegemony to more economically aggressive groups. Likewise, economically...

    Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge