Full Description
This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically awkward as a description of the security of states and their populations; it implies the loosening of state control and the emergence of newly asserted authority by mixed constellations of intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. It implies a competition of agendas: threats to the integrity of borders and human security threats such as natural disasters, airliner crashes, and displacement by man-made pollution and food scarcity. Conversely, polycentrism could also imply a return to a more neo-realist oriented international order where great powers ignore ASEAN and steer regional order according to their perceived interests and relative military superiority. This book embraces these contradictory trends as a foundation of analysis and accepts that disorder can also be re-described fromthe perspective of studied detachment as polycentric order.
Contents
Chapter 1: Southeast Asia : a Global Periphery No More - Dr Ooi Kee Beng, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 2: ASEAN Centrality in Defense and Security Cooperation in East Asia - Professor See Seng Tan, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 3: ASEAN's Limits with respect to Conflict Resolution in the Region - Professor Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, Institute of Future Studies for Development, Thailand.- Chapter 4: Animating Transitional Polycentrism: the Role of China - Assistant Professor Hoo Tiang Boon, China Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 5: The Emerging Security Landscape in the Asia-Pacific: Where ASEAN fits - Professor Huang Xiaoming, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.- Chapter 6: ASEAN in the Era of Japan-China Tensions: Diplomatic Opportunities or Strategic Dilemmas? - Associate Professor Takeshi Yuzawa, Hosei University, Japan.- Chapter 7: The Role of the US' Quasi-Alliances in Asia: Shadow Puppetry or Hard Alliances? - Assistant Professor Charmaine Misalucha, De La Salle University, Philippines.- Chapter 8: Order in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region: Indian Hegemony or Indian Primacy? - Dr. Manjeet S. Pardesi, Lecturer in International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.- Chapter 9: Fostering Military Diplomacy with America's Bilateral Allies: The Philippine Policy of Linking Spokes Together - Professor Renato Cruz de Castro, De La Salle University, Philippines.- Chapter 10: Reasons for Optimism? China, Japan and Unilateral Naval Restraint in the East China Sea - Dr Collin Koh, Maritime Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 11: The Asia-Pacific Diplomacy of Counter-Terrorism in Tackling the Threat from the Islamic State - Associate Professor Bilveer Singh, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.- Chapter 12: Climate Change and Food Insecurities - Destabilizers of ASEAN Centrality? - Dr Tamara Nair, Centre for Non-Traditional Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 13: Subnational Conflict Mitigation: Networks, innovations, and the uncertain place of ASEAN - Assistant Professor Linda Quayle, The University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus), Malaysia.- Chapter 14: Silos, Synergies and Prospects for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief - Dr Alistair D.B. Cook, Centre for Non-Traditional Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 15: Asia's Military Competition by Proxy: Competitive HADR as a Respectable Arena? - Associate Professor Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.- Chapter 16: Re-conceptualizing the Role of the Military for International Disaster Relief: Exploring the Factors Conditioning Responses by the Militaries of Japan, Taiwan, China, and South Korea - Mr Jeffrey Engstrom, RAND Corporation, USA.
