New Approaches To Human Security In The Asia Pacific

Author : William T. Tow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317088714

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New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific by William T. Tow Pdf

New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a distinctly Asia-Pacific-oriented perspective to one of the most discussed components of international security policy, human security. This volume of regional experts assess countries that have either spearheaded this form of security politics (Japan and Australia) or have recently advanced to become a key player on various aspects of human security in both a domestic and global context (China). The authors provide an interesting investigation into the continued relevance and promise of the human security paradigm against more 'traditional' security approaches. Accordingly the book will appeal to readers across a wide band of the social sciences (international relations, security studies, development studies and public policy) and to practitioners and analysts working in applied settings.

Author : David Walton,William T. Tow,Rikki Kersten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 140945679X

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New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific by David Walton,William T. Tow,Rikki Kersten Pdf

Offers a distinctly Asia-Pacific-oriented perspective to human security. This volume of essays assesses countries that have either spearheaded this form of security politics (Japan and Australia) or have recently advanced to become a key player on various aspects of human security in both a domestic and global context (China). Australian authors.

Author : Anthony Burke,Matt McDonald
Publisher : New Approaches to Conflict Ana
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822034245274

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Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific by Anthony Burke,Matt McDonald Pdf

In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 Tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks appear increasingly unable to explain the ways in which individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or to advance individual, global or environmental security. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region, while also turning a new, critical eye on traditional inter-state strategic dynamics.

Author : Benny Teh Cheng Guan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400717992

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Human Security by Benny Teh Cheng Guan Pdf

Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics. Yet, inter-state relations have continued to dominate security concerns in East Asia. This has, unfortunately, eluded the broader understanding of issues and challenges facing the peoples of East Asia. Home to nations with rapid economic growth and development, East Asia is at the core of what some individuals have termed as the coming Asian Century. Years of economic liberalization and exposure to globalization have permitted the region to achieve high levels of interconnectedness from within and without in unprecedented ways. This has certainly reduced state control and opened up spaces for cross-border human activities. While economic wealth have increased substantially over the years, it has also brought about bigger income disparities, unsustainable safety nets and a surge in social problems from health issues to migratory concerns that threaten the safety and well-being of individuals. Human Security: Securing East Asia’s Future timely examines the fundamental issues causing human insecurities and evaluates the extent of which human security plays a role at the state and regional levels. Covering the different areas of threats to humans and applying case study materials, this volume provides an intellectual mix of perspectives that captures the relationship between people, state and region. This book will be of interest to those studying traditional and non-traditional security/threats, Asian human development and critical policy analysis.

Author : Yukiko Nishikawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136962462

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Human Security in Southeast Asia by Yukiko Nishikawa Pdf

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of security policy in individual states in Southeast Asia, as well as in the regional security policy within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The book discusses domestic challenges for human security including the insurgencies in southern Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Transnational security issues such as terrorism, drugs, human trafficking and the situation in Burma are explored by the author, and the ‘ASEAN’ way of contrasting the values and approaches of Southeast Asian countries with those in the West is assessed. By focusing on the ongoing changes and efforts to achieve human security in Southeast Asia, this book contributes to theoretical debates on human security as well as regional studies on Southeast Asia.

Author : William T. Tow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317088721

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New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific by William T. Tow Pdf

New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a distinctly Asia-Pacific-oriented perspective to one of the most discussed components of international security policy, human security. This volume of regional experts assess countries that have either spearheaded this form of security politics (Japan and Australia) or have recently advanced to become a key player on various aspects of human security in both a domestic and global context (China). The authors provide an interesting investigation into the continued relevance and promise of the human security paradigm against more 'traditional' security approaches. Accordingly the book will appeal to readers across a wide band of the social sciences (international relations, security studies, development studies and public policy) and to practitioners and analysts working in applied settings.

Author : Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
Publisher : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822031129000

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Human Face of Security by Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Pdf

Author : William T. Tow,Ramesh Thakur,Ramesh Chandra Thakur,In-Taek Hyun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110008781

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Asia's Emerging Regional Order by William T. Tow,Ramesh Thakur,Ramesh Chandra Thakur,In-Taek Hyun Pdf

The concept of 'human security' has captured the attention of both national policy-makers and independent analysts throughout Asia. Its most compelling feature is an emphasis on the social, economic and political well being of individuals, linking international security to the community and to the individual rather than restricting it to the purview of the state. The concept is especially relevant to an Asia-Pacific region which is experiencing immense structural changes. Immense human security problems threaten to overwhelm Asian states' capacities to resolve them: falling real incomes and rising poverty levels; destabilizing migration flows; food shortages and malnutrition; declining public health and education and intensifying crime rates. These problems cannot be solved by deploying military forces or relying on international diplomats to fashion traditional power balances along state-centric lines. They must instead be resolved through cooperative interaction among intellectual communities, government leaders, grass roots organizations and the general public. Most fundamentally, governments must initiate and sustain more direct ties with those over whom they presume to serve. This volume offers several proposals for integrating traditional and human security approaches, including supplementing the ASEAN Regional Forum with a more 'Asia-centric' security dialogue structure, developing groups of experts or 'epistemic communities' that could more readily influence policy-making elites in the region, and linking grass-root environmental groups, anti-nuclear groups and others to first and second track fora invested with identifying new regional security approaches.

Author : Lorraine Elliott,Mely Caballero-Anthony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136263231

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Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia by Lorraine Elliott,Mely Caballero-Anthony Pdf

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in Southeast Asia and to show how a human security approach draws attention to the importance of adaptation and strategies for social resilience. In doing so, it exposes the consequences of climate change, the impact on community rights and access, the special problem of border areas, before going on to investigate local and regional strategies for addressing the human security challenges of climate change.

Author : Alistair Cook,Tamara Nair
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811224447

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Non-traditional Security In The Asia-pacific: A Decade Of Perspectives by Alistair Cook,Tamara Nair Pdf

What is Non-Traditional Security? How have our understandings of security changed over the past decade? What are the dominant non-traditional security challenges we face in the world today?The concept of national security remains contested but our understanding of it continues to evolve as it is shaped by the world around us. From a globally dominant 'traditional' understanding of security during the Cold War characterised by a focus on countries and their militaries protecting their sovereignty to today, where non-military threats such as global pandemics, climate change, energy, to disasters threaten the wellbeing and livelihoods of people, communities, and the environment that form the backbone of society.The global dial has shifted towards a more comprehensive understanding of security that recognises these non-traditional security threats moving the focus away from solely the survival of the state to the empowerment and protection of people and the environment. This shift highlights the experiences of different individuals and communities, from civilians affected by war to irregular migrants moving from one place to the next, and what the world witnesses as efforts to empower and protect people and the environment.Indeed, comprehensive security has a long history in the post-colonial Asia-Pacific. Non-Traditional Security emerged after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It emerged as a way to recalibrate the ways governments engaged people and communities and developed pathways for countries in the region to cooperate.Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Decade of Perspectives, an interdisciplinary collection, is essential reading for anyone interested in the developments of security with a focus on the dominant non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific over the last decade — from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, to policymakers at the local, national, regional, and international levels.

Author : Desmond Ball,Robert Ayson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000247473

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Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific by Desmond Ball,Robert Ayson Pdf

From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own local security challenges in a wider regional and global context. It is also for North American and European readers requiring an understanding of the dynamic security developments in the Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.

Author : Sorpong Peou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216127277

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Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific by Sorpong Peou Pdf

Demonstrating that none of the various perspectives under review has emerged as the clear winner in the struggle for theoretical hegemony in security studies, this book shows that eclectic perspectives, like democratic realist institutionalism, can better explain peace and security in the Asian Pacific. The Asian Pacific has emerged as one of the most important regions in the world, causing scholars to pay increased attention to the various challenges, old and new, to peace and security there. Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive, critical review of the established theoretical perspectives relevant to contemporary peace and security studies in the light of recent experiences. Illuminating ongoing debates in the field, the book covers some 20 theoretical perspectives on peace and security in the Asian Pacific, including realist, liberal, socialist, peace and human security, constructivist, feminist, and nontraditional security studies. The first section of the book discusses perspectives in realist security studies, the second part covers perspectives critical of realism. The author's goal is to assess whether any of the perspectives found in nonrealist security studies are capable of undermining realism. His conclusion is that each theoretical perspective has its strengths and weaknesses, leaving eclecticism as the best way to understand the region's dynamics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462754

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Human Security: From Concept to Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : William T. Tow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139482769

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Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific by William T. Tow Pdf

Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse but complementary perspectives on which issues and factors are most important in explaining how security politics in Asia can be interpreted at both the regional and global levels of analysis. Issues addressed include power balancing and alliances, governance and democracy, maritime and energy security, the relationship between economics and security, 'human security', terrorism, nuclear non-proliferation, climate change and pandemics. This work will serve as a standard reference on the evolution of key issues in Asian security.

Author : Matthias Vanhullebusch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004356498

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Global Governance, Conflict and China by Matthias Vanhullebusch Pdf