Summary In South China Sea: Energy and Security Conflicts, foreign policy analyst Christopher L. Daniels analyzes the core causes of the dispute over territorial claims in…
Publication Type: Books
Summary The Asia-Pacific region is likely to be the fulcrum of international security affairs in the twenty-first century. As the region’s economies…
Summary Is formal neutralization, as proposed by Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia, a solution for Southeast Asia’s problems? No, concludes the author, so long as…
Summary What are the major challenges, fault lines, and potential adversities (these terms are used synonymously), that China’s economic development will encounter over the next…
Summary In the quarter century after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable…
Summary Since the crucial maritime battles that were fought during the Second World War in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the post-war period,…
Summary India’s defence spending experienced a marked decline since the late 1980s.From 3.6% of the GDP in 1987,defencespending came down to 2.1%, which was the…
Summary Talking about ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the ASEAN Way, the accession of…
Summary With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, interest in countries such as India – and their navies…
Summary There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia’s moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy…
Summary This is the first complete, scholarly history of the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. Pike concludes that Vietnam has entered into a marriage of convenience with Moscow…
Summary China’s rising maritime power is encountering American maritime power along the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) that connect China to vital energy resources in…
Summary As a consequence of India’s attempts to carve out a foreign policy that is in sync with India’s rising stature in the international system,…
Summary This is an unusually solid collection of papers derived from a conference held by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National…
Summary Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive…
