Asian Security Studies
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Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia
Regional Power Strategies
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book examines Indian foreign policy and security relations in its eastern regional neighbourhood. Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia conducts an in-depth analysis into India’s foreign policy towards the three main countries in India’s Eastern neighbourhood – Sri Lanka, Nepal, and...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Pakistan's War on Terrorism
Strategies for Combating Jihadist Armed Groups since 9/11
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. The significance of the war inside Pakistan can hardly be understated. Starting in the tribal territories adjacent to Afghanistan, Pakistan’s war has come to engulf...
Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
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US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations
Irrepressible Interests
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - DPRK). Although focusing mainly on current issues, this book also provides sufficient historical background to enable readers...
Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia. The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature on...
Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Security Practices in South Asia
Securitization Theory and the Role of Non-State Actors
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book explores the ways in which non-state actors (NSAs) in South Asia are involved in securitizing non-traditional security challenges in the region at the sub-state level. South Asia is the epicentre of some of the most significant international security challenges today. Yet, the...
Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia
States, Security and Non-State Actors
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
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China, Europe and International Security
Interests, Roles, and Prospects
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book examines the roles played by China and Europe in the domain of international security in the 21st century. Bringing together Chinese and European expertise on the Sino-European Security relationship , this book positions Europe - both the EU and the major national actors - and China in a...
Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
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US-China-EU Relations
Managing the New World Order
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 January 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific
The ASEAN Regional Forum
Series: Asian Security Studies
This book offers the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which remains the foremost dialogue forum for the promotion of cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific. Contributors focus on the perspectives and roles of the key players in the ARF – ASEAN, the United...
Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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India and Counterinsurgency
Lessons Learned
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
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Managing the China Challenge
Global Perspectives
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 September 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation
The Case of India-Pakistan
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 September 8th 2008 by Routledge
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The Rise of China and International Security
America and Asia Respond
Series: Asian Security Studies
This edited volume offers diverse and comprehensive views of China's rise and its implications to the East Asian region and beyond. The economic growth of China, initially started in the late-1970s with domestic and rural reforms, has been increasingly driven by China's industrialization and...
Published August 28th 2008 by Routledge
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Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia
Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb
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 August 5th 2008 by Routledge
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Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia
Third-party Mediation in Regional Conflict
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 May 6th 2008 by Routledge
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South Asia's Cold War
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
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 April 24th 2008 by Routledge
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US Taiwan Policy
Constructing the Triangle
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
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China's War on Terrorism
Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security
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 November 7th 2007 by Routledge
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China, the United States, and South-East Asia
Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics
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 August 8th 2007 by Routledge
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Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States
Institutional Incentives, Myths and Counter-Balancing
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
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Asia-Pacific Security
US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle
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 May 30th 2007 by Routledge
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Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War
The Last Maoist War
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 April 18th 2007 by Routledge
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Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Confucianism, Leadership and War
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 March 14th 2007 by Routledge
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India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad
The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004
Series: Asian Security Studies
India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war. Praveen Swami&...
Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge
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Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia
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 September 27th 2006 by Routledge
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Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia
Disrupting Violence
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 August 23rd 2006 by Routledge
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US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century
More than Words
Series: Asian Security Studies
In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation. During the Cold War, owing to opposing grand strategies, the two states frequently found themselves at odds. With the end of the Cold War and the demise of the...
Published August 9th 2006 by Routledge
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China's Rising Sea Power
The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge
Series: Asian Security Studies
This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets...
Published January 26th 2006 by Routledge
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Taiwan's Security
History and Prospects
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 December 21st 2005 by Routledge
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If China Attacks Taiwan
Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
Series: Asian Security Studies
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force, a...
Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
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The Chinese Army Today
Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Series: Asian Security Studies
The Chinese Army Today is a completely unique and comprehensive study of all elements of the Chinese military, focusing on its ground forces to a degree not found in any other contemporary works. In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army that had been...
Published December 13th 2005 by Routledge
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Chinese Civil-Military Relations
The Transformation of the People's Liberation Army
Series: Asian Security Studies
This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations? What can account for changes? And what are the implications for Chinese security policy and strategic behaviour? It tackles these questions by keenly assessing civil-military dynamics in elite politics...
Published December 12th 2005 by Routledge
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China and International Institutions
Alternate Paths to Global Power
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 July 19th 2005 by Routledge