Asian Security Order

by Alagappa, Muthiah

• ISBN13: 9780804746298
• ISBN10: 080474629X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-21
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Strait, and over Kashmir, the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation, and the concern with the rising power of China and with American dominance. Indeed, some experts see Asia as a dangerous and unstable place. Alagappa disagrees, maintaining that Asia is a far more stable, predictable, and prosperous region than it was in the postindependence period. This volume also takes account of the changed security environment in Asia since September 11, 2001. Unlike many areas-studies approaches, Alagappa's work makes a strong case for taking regional politics and security dynamics seriously from both theoretical and empirical approaches. The first part of this volume develops an analytical framework for the study of order; the salience of the different pathways to order is examined in the second part; the third investigates the management of specific security issues; and the final part discusses the nature of security order in Asia.

Author Biography

Muthiah Alagappa is Director of the East-West Center Washington. He is the editor of Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia (Stanford, 2001), Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford, 1998), and Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford, 1995).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xvii
Contributors	xxiii
Introduction: Predictability and Stability Despite Challenges	1	(32)
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Part I. Conceptual Perspective
The Study of International Order: An Analytical Framework	33	(37)
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Constructing Security Order in Asia: Conceptions and Issues	70	(36)
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Sovereignty: Dominance of the Westphalian Concept and Implications for Regional Security	106	(35)
Chung-In Moon
Chaesung Chun
Part II. Pathways to Order
Incomplete Hegemony: The United States and Security Order in Asia	141	(30)
Michael Mastanduno
Balance-of-Power Politics: Consequences for Asian Security Order	171	(39)
Avery Goldstein
Regional Institutions and Asian Security Order: Norms, Power, and Prospects for Peaceful Change	210	(31)
Amitav Acharya
Track 2 Diplomacy: Ideational Contribution to the Evolving Asian Security Order	241	(39)
Brian L. Job
Economic Interdependence and Economic Cooperation: Mitigating Conflict and Transforming Security Order in Asia	280	(31)
Ming Wan
The UN System as a Pathway to Security in Asia: A Buttress, Not a Pillar	311	(38)
Rosemary Foot
Part III. Management of Specific Issues
Acute Conflicts in Asia After the Cold War: Kashmir, Taiwan, and Korea	349	(31)
David Kang
Territorial Disputes and Asian Security: Sources, Management, and Prospects	380	(44)
Jianwei Wang
Maritime Issues in Asia: The Problem of Adolescence	424	(34)
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Stability: A Case for ``Sober Optimism''	458	(39)
Victor D. Cha
Managing Internal Conflicts: Dominance of the State	497	(39)
Arun R. Swamy
John Gershman
Human Security: An Intractable Problem in Asia	536	(35)
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Part IV. Conclusion
Managing Asian Security: Competition, Cooperation, and Evolutionary Change	571	(38)
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Index	609