Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Burke teaches International Relations and Security Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia Klappentext This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the war on terror and the plight of refugees. Zusammenfassung This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region! and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula! environmental change! Indonesian conflict! the war on terror and the plight of refugees. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures - Matt McDonald & Anthony BurkePART I: AGENTS1. Regionalism and security in East Asia - Julie Gilson2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia - Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific - Mark Beeson4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale of two 'Essentialisms' - See Seng TanPART II: STRATEGIES AND CONTEXTS5. Constructing separatist threats: security and insecurity in Indonesian Aceh and Papua - Edward Aspinal and Richard Chauvel 6. Freedom from fear: conflict, displacement and human security in Burma (Myanmar) - Hazel Lang7. Australia paranoid: security politics and identity policy - Anthony Burke8. Harm and emancipation: making environmental security 'critical' in the Asia-Pacific - Lorraine Elliott9. Seeking security for refugees - Sara Davies10. Discourses of security in China: towards a critical turn? - Yongjin Zhang11. Nuclear weapons in the Asia-Pacific: a critical security appraisal - Marianne Hanson12. US hegemony, the war on terror and security in the Asia-Pacific - Matt McDonaldPART III: FUTURES13. Dealing with North Korea: conventional and alternative security scenarios - Roland Bleiker14. Security as enslavement, security as emancipation: gendered legacies and feminist futures in the Asia-Pacific - Katrina Lee KooConclusion: emancipating security in the Asia-Pacific? - Simon Dalby...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony Burke, Anthony Mcdonald Burke
• Mitarbeit: Anthony Burke (Herausgeber), Burke Anthony (Herausgeber), Peter Lawler (Herausgeber), Matt Mcdonald (Herausgeber), McDonald Matt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9780719073052
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7305-2
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana; New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, International Relations, South East Asia, Defence strategy, planning & research, Military and defence strategy, Australasia, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa