This book examines the security challenges and opportunities that the nation-states of Asia confront in an era of globalization.
With consideration of the increasingly border-less nature of international relations via the integrative process of globalization, this book explores the emerging threats to regional and national security in Asia. It looks beyond traditional military threats, analysing non-traditional aspects of security including economic, social, environmental, transnational, energy, health concerns and threats posed by organized-crime groups. Its approach is organized both theoretically and, in a country-specific, case study form which provides contemporary examples of the threats faced in the region. By acknowledging that contemporary Asian security has become much more complex and complicated, it highlights the uncertainty and instability that the nation-states of the Indo-Pacific region confront.
Presenting both a globally oriented and expanded vision of Asian security, this book is an excellent resource for scholars and students of Asian Studies, International Relations and Global Studies.
1. Asia Security Today: State of the Field
Lui Hebron
2. Asia after the Cold War: Back to the Future
Enyu Zhang, Yitan Li, and Patrick James
3. Military Threats to Security
Hyun Ji Rim
4. Terrorists Threats to Security
Maria Ortuoste and Cameron Olsen
5. Economic Threats to Security
Zongyuan Zoe Liu and Shu Fukuya
6. Criminal Threats to Security
Joel R. Campbell
7. Environmental Threats to Security
Luba Levin-Banchik
8. Health Threats to Security
Jeremy Youde
9. Towards Regional Security Cooperation
Janicke Stramer-Smith
Biography
Lui Hebron is a Faculty Affairs Specialist at the California State University, USA. His research focuses on the areas of political economy (Globalization), international relations (ethnicity, conflict and war, security studies), and Asian studies (Pacific Rim, China).
