East Asia Imperilled - Transnational Challenges to Security

Zusammenfassung In this 2001 analysis! Alan Dupont argues that an emerging new class of non-military threats has the potential to destabilise East Asia and reverse decades of hard-won economic and social development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Transnational issues and security; Part I. Environmental Scarcity: 2. Population and conflict; 3. Deforestation, pollution and climate change; 4. Will there be an 'energy gap?'; 5. 'Is a food crisis likely'?; 6. 'Water wars'; Part II. Unregulated Population Movements: 7. Unregulated population movements, ethnic conflict and environmental refugees; 8. The state, people-smuggling and undocumented labour migration; Part III. Crime and AIDS: 9. Transnational organised crime; 10. Drug-trafficking - an emerging threat; 11. The AIDS 'Pandemic'.

Product details

• Authors: Alan DuPont, Alan (Australian National University Dupont, Dupont Alan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521010153
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01015-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies; Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations