ASIAN SECURITY STUDIES

Opis produktu

This book examines the contributions of nonASEAN countries to the establishment maintenance and reform of Asias multilateral arrangements.This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of postCold War Asia.In contrast to the usual emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asias multilateral architecture and its component institutions this book argues that the four nonASEAN countries of interest here ż Australia Japan China and the United States ż and Indonesia have played and continue to play an influential part in determining the shape and substance of Asian multilateralism from its preinception to the present. The work does not contend that existing scholarship overstates ASEANs significance to the successes and failures of Asias multilateral enterprise. Rather it claims that the impact of nonASEAN stakeholders in innovating multilateral architecture in Asia has been understated. Whether ASEAN has fared well or poorly as a custodian of Asias regional architecture the fact remains that the countries considered here notwithstanding their present discontent over the state of that architecture are key to understanding the evolution of Asian multilateralism. This book will be of much interest to students of Asian politics international organisations security studies and IR more generally.1. Introduction 2. Multilateralism in Asia 3. ASEAN 4. Australia 5. Japan 6. China 7. United States 8. Indonesia 9. ConclusionSee Seng Tan is associate professor Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is the author of The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation (2013).

Data Publikacji: 2017-02-27
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 453 gr