Full Description
The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
There are only a very few regions in the world which have advanced so fast both economically and technologically as the Asia-Pacific in the past few decades. Probably this is one of the reasons why several countries in the region have gained confidence, sharpened their diplomatic tone, increased their defence expenditure, invested into military capabilities, and questioned both the local and global status-quo. The region contains emerging powers, far-reaching ambitions, threatening rhetoric, rising political tensions, and concerns about military conflicts. Factors that show that critical issues are at stake, the reopening of long-forgotten debates, are more relevant than ever and masses of uncertainties are yet to be resolved.
This book will be of much interest to all students and scholars of Asia-Pacific Security, Asian politics and International Relations in general. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Defense & Security Analysis.
Contents
Introduction: Asia-Pacific defense and security outlook 1. The security environment in the Asia-Pacific: the context for arming 2. The Politicisation of Archaeology in Border Demarcation Conflict in the Asia Pacific Region 3. The Philippine defence-development-disaster security paradigm 4. Dual-neutrality for the Koreas: a two-pronged approach toward reunification 5. Evaluating civil-military relationship for effective procurement decision-making: the case of two fighter jet procurements of the Republic of Korea 6. The challenges in buyer-supplier relationship for technological absorption capability in international defence acquisition: the case of Southeast Asia 7. Made in India: an aspiring brand in global arms bazaar 8. Imagining maritime conflict in the Indo-Pacific: can analogies substitute for strategy?
