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More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Strait, and over Kashmir, the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation, and the concern with the rising power of China and with American dominance. Indeed, some experts see Asia as a dangerous and unstable place. Alagappa disagrees, maintaining that Asia is a far more stable, predictable, and prosperous region than it was in the postindependence period. This volume also takes account of the changed security environment in Asia since September 11, 2001.
Unlike many areas-studies approaches, Alagappa's work makes a strong case for taking regional politics and security dynamics seriously from both theoretical and empirical approaches. The first part of this volume develops an analytical framework for the study of order; the salience of the different pathways to order is examined in the second part; the third investigates the management of specific security issues; and the final part discusses the nature of security order in Asia.

Details

Title Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features
Author Muthiah Alagappa (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 656
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Stanford University Press
Date 2002-11-22
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780804746281 / 0804746281
Weight 2.41 lbs (1.09 kg)
Dimensions 9.62 x 6.56 x 1.78 in (24.43 x 16.66 x 4.52 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
Library of Congress subjects Asia - Military policy, National security - Asia
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002012941
Dewey Decimal Code 355.033

About the author

Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He is the editor of Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Stanford, 2003), Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia (Stanford, 2001), Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford, 1998), and Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford, 1995).