Summary This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Summary Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of…
Summary Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent…
Summary In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth. However, this book argues that, in…
Abstract Why do hedging strategies appear so pervasive in Asia? This article argues that hedging – not balancing or bandwagoning – is the central tendency…
Summary From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two…
Summary This Adelphi examines defence procurement in Asia against a backdrop of the region’s fragmented security infrastructure. The overlapping alliances, multilateral bodies and regional dialogues are ill-equipped…
From the publisher: This article is composed of three major sections. In the first section, I explain why the pessimistic predictions of the 1990s about a…
From the publisher: The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
Abstract Leadership at the regional level has come under the spotlight not only in the post-Cold War context, but also more recently following the global…
From the publisher: There have been a number of articles about ASEAN’s centrality in the regional security architecture of Asia. Yet, the notion of centrality remains…
From the publisher: This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict…
From the publisher: Indonesia is often regarded as the natural leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in light of its geographical dimensions, large…
Abstract Despite none of its members being a major economic or military power, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has played a leading role…
Summary At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and…
