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Provides a fresh perspective on ASEAN's role for regional security in Southeast Asia.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. ASEAN as a security institution: its legal, normative and institutional framework; 2. Nuclear security; 3. Counter-terrorism; 4. Maritime security; 5. Cyber security; 6. Human trafficking and people smuggling; 7. Food security; Conclusion.
About the author
Hitoshi Nasu is Professor of International Law at Exeter University. He is an expert of public international law, especially in the fields of international security law and the law of armed conflict. He is the author of International Law on Peacekeeping (2009) and co-editor of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building (2011), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management (2013), New Technologies and the Law of Armed Conflict (2014), and Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions (Cambridge, 2015).Rob McLaughlin is Professor of Military and Security Law at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. His fields of research focus around law of armed conflict, law of the sea, and military operations, military administrative, and military discipline law. He served more than twenty years in the Royal Australian Navy. He is the author of United Nations Peace Operations in the Territorial Sea (2009) and Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners (2017), co-author of Rules of Engagement Handbook (2009) and Handbook on the Use of Force by Private Security Companies (2016), and co-editor of New Technologies and the Law of Armed Conflict (2014).Donald R. Rothwell is Professor of International Law at the College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra . His research has a specific focus on law of the sea, international polar law, and implementation of international law within Australia as reflected in 24 books, and over 200 articles, book chapters and notes in international and Australian publications. Rothwell is Co-Editor of the Australian Year Book of International Law and editor-in-chief of the Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea. From 2012 to 18 he was Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on 'Baselines under the International Law of the Sea'.See Seng Tan is Professor of International Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Multilateral Asian Security Architecture: Non-ASEAN Stakeholders (2015) and The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation (2013), co-editor of United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia (2015), and editor of the 4-volume Regionalism in Asia (2009).
