The Economic Crisis And Southeast Asian Security

Author : Sheldon W. Simon
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : ASEAN countries
ISBN : 9781428912793

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The Economic Crisis and ASEAN States' Security by Sheldon W. Simon Pdf

Asia's financial crisis has quickly become a global one. Its implications far transcend purely economic or financial considerations. In fact, the crisis that began with the fall of Thailand's Baht in 1997 now embraces the entire world and has caused governments to fall in Asia and Russia. To understand the dynamics of the crisis and its consequences for U.S. security, the Strategic Studies Institute and the National Bureau of Research on Asia organized a conference in Seattle, Washington, on June 9-10, 1998. At that conference Professor Sheldon Simon presented this paper. He outlines the impact of this crisis on the security of Southeast Asian governments and armed forces. He assesses how this situation is affecting defense cooperation in Southeast Asia, the prospects for defense modernization in a constrained environment, and the need for the United States to find new modalities by which to achieve its regional security goals. He also underscores the connection between healthy economies and governments on the one hand and between those features and a robust national and regional defense capability. Precisely because this crisis will be of long duration and have a profound international impact, Asian security in the future will clearly be unlike what it has been in the past. Therefore it is essential that we keep abreast of the great changes taking place in this critical area of international security and provide solid analysis of how the situation will affect international security in Asia and elsewhere.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9781428912205

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East Asia in Crisis by Stephen Blank Pdf

The financial crisis that began in Thailand in mid-1997 has now become a global one. It has consumed governments upset defense planning and the regional standing of major powers in Asia, and is forcing us to rethink Asia's entire past and future political trajectory. The security implications go beyond merely the crash of unsound financial systems. Governments have fallen across Asia and in Russia. Civil violence is currently taking place in Indonesia, a key Asian state. Defense research, development and procurement have been postponed in most Asian countries. The crisis and its reverberations have shaken financial markets and governments as far away as Brazil. In order to assess the dangers posed by this crisis to Asian and U.S. security interests, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) cosponsored a conference with the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Reserve Officers Association in Seattle, Washington on June 9-10, 1998. This conference represented a unique opportunity to conduct such an assessment since it brought together participants from government the military, academia, international financial institutions, and Asia.

Author : Sheldon W. Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Financial crises
ISBN : OCLC:1014017052

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The Economic Crisis and Asean States' Security by Sheldon W. Simon Pdf

In the late 20th century, no region of the world has been more successful in improving the standard of living of its populations than the Asia-Pacific. If national security is in large part a function of national well-being, then East Asia has enjoyed an increasingly secure existence. Beginning in the early 1990s, both Northeast and Southeast Asia have experienced aggregate annual economic growth rates averaging 7 percent, more than double those of North America and Western Europe. Politically as well, this region seems to be adapting effectively to the post-Cold War. Regional organizations such as the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1997, and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum provide regular venues for discussions of regional trade, investment, and security issues-dialogues previously unknown for Asia at the regional level. Nevertheless, this rosy picture has been marred in 1997-98 by a series of financial and economic crises that spread%along the Asia-Pacific rim like a contagious disease. Originating in Thailand in July 1997, financial meltdowns spread quickly to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines as well as affecting the much stronger currencies of Hong Kong and Singapore. By the end of 1997, currency depreciation averaged 50 percent against the U.S. dollar since July; and the crisis had extended to South Korea and Japan as well.

Author : David Brian Dewitt,Carolina G. Hernandez
Publisher : Aldershot, England : Ashgate
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056472601

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Development and Security in Southeast Asia: Globalization by David Brian Dewitt,Carolina G. Hernandez Pdf

This third volume of three accepts that globalization is both the context within which Southeast Asian countries must function and is a process which governments and businesses have embraced. The focus of this text is on how the phenomenon of globalization has affected individuals' well-being and the community security.

Author : Stephen Hoadley,Jurgen Ruland
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812304001

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Asian Security Reassessed by Stephen Hoadley,Jurgen Ruland Pdf

This book traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. It surveys not only orthodox security threats such as tensions between regional powers or armed ethnic antagonists but also new sources of anxiety such as resource scarcity, economic instability, irregular migration, community fragmentation, and international terrorism. Security policies of major powers such as China, Japan, and the United States, and the moderating roles of regional organizations such as ASEAN, ARF, SCO, and KEDO are evaluated in historical and contemporary perspectives. Contributors proffer policy-relevant insights where appropriate. The book concludes that traditional security approaches remain valid but need to be adapted to the new challenges, and offers suggestions for incorporating fresh Asian security perceptions into the agendas of policy-makers, analysts, and scholars.

Author : Saw Swee-Hock
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814311793

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Managing Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia by Saw Swee-Hock Pdf

This book incorporates a selection of eight revised papers presented at the Conference on "Managing Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia", organized jointly by the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, NUS Business School and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, in January 2010. The chapters deal with the management of the 2008-09 economic crisis in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the region as a whole. They represent an analysis of the impact of the economic crisis and the stimulus packages that were swiftly put in place by the governments to mitigate the economic recession and to pave the way for a quick recovery. The success of the monetary and fiscal policy measures in engendering a strong economic recovery in these countries is also discussed in considerable depth. The book, with contributions from experts on the topics covered, will be extremely valuable to businessmen, analysts, academics, students, policy-makers and the general public interested in seeking a greater understanding of the sub-prime crisis that led to the global economic recession.

Author : Sheldon W. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742516656

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The Many Faces of Asian Security by Sheldon W. Simon Pdf

This authoritative volume evaluates post-Cold War approaches to security in the Asia Pacific. Leading specialists first examine traditional security concerns-military capabilities, balance of power, territorial and resource disputes, the effects of new technologies on military strategy, and the problems involved in maintaining sovereignty in the face of globalization. They then introduce the new security agenda of economic and financial stability, the effects of environmental degradation, human rights and political stability, and the impact of transnational crime. Their wide-ranging and incisive discussions will be of interest to policymakers, scholars, and students alike. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Sheldon W. Simon,Evelyn Goh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134087051

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China, the United States, and South-East Asia by Sheldon W. Simon,Evelyn Goh Pdf

This volume, with its wide range of perspectives, makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy and academic dialogue on a rising China. It examines a range of perspectives on the nature of China‘s rise and its implications for Southeast Asian states as well as US interests in the region.

Author : Anthony Milner
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812302212

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Region, Security and the Return of History by Anthony Milner Pdf

A decade ago there was talk of the "end of history". Francis Fukuyama assured us that no ideology, even Islamic ideology, could challenge the universalist claims of liberal democracy. Influential analysts spoke of an international convergence of value systems as well as economies. Today some have gone to the other extreme and accept the idea of a "clash of civilizations". At the very least, we can say history has returned with a vengeance. When commentators of a decade ago assumed change was moving in one direction, they tended to dismiss ASEAN as a "talk shop" and pour scorn on attempts to formulate "Asian values". Today, even tough-minded security specialists attend to specific vocabulary and nuances of the conversation of this region. What role will the historian play in this era of the return of history? Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History and Dean of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, addresses this question. In 2002, Professor Milner was Raffles Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Contents include: Critiquing ASEAN; The Convergence Era; Security and Talk; Regionalism in Europe; Recognizing Difference; Difference in the Regional Conversation; The Historian; Excess, Islam.

Author : Tulus Tambunan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1536113115

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Economic Crisis and Vulnerability by Tulus Tambunan Pdf

Author : Aris Ananta,Richard R. Barichello
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814311199

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Poverty and Global Recession in Southeast Asia by Aris Ananta,Richard R. Barichello Pdf

This book started with an objective to understand the impact of high inflation on poverty and food security in Southeast Asia. However, the global economy moved quickly into recession in 2008. Anticipating that the impact of global recession would be more severe than that of high inflation in Southeast Asia, we re-focused the title of the book to Poverty, Food, and Global Recession in Southeast Asia. By early 2010, people were already optimistic that the global recession was over or would be over soon. However, the evidence was mounting that the poor had suffered and were still suffering from the current global crisis, even if the richer individuals may have recovered. Therefore, an important question arises, Is the crisis really over for the poor? This then became the sub-title of this book. This book aims to contribute a better understanding on poverty and food security in Southeast Asia during the recent global recession considering both recent developments and the previous major crisis of 1997-98.

Author : Tulus Tahi Hamonangan Tambunan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Financial crises
ISBN : 1613242409

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Economic Crisis and Vulnerability by Tulus Tahi Hamonangan Tambunan Pdf

Examines the economic crisis and vulnerability with reference to certain countries in East Asia. This book focuses on Indonesia is because since 1990 until Indonesia has been hit by two big economic crises.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:227896285

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East Asia in Crisis by Stephen Blank Pdf

The financial crisis that began in Thailand in mid-1997 has now become a global one. It has consumed governments upset defense planning and the regional standing of major powers in Asia, and is forcing us to rethink Asia's entire past and future political trajectory. The security implications go beyond merely the crash of unsound financial systems. Governments have fallen across Asia and in Russia. Civil violence is currently taking place in Indonesia, a key Asian state. Defense research, development and procurement have been postponed in most Asian countries. The crisis and its reverberations have shaken financial markets and governments as far away as Brazil. In order to assess the dangers posed by this crisis to Asian and U.S. security interests, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) cosponsored a conference with the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Reserve Officers Association in Seattle, Washington on June 9-10, 1998. This conference represented a unique opportunity to conduct such an assessment since it brought together participants from government the military, academia, international financial institutions, and Asia.

Author : Boo Teik Khoo,Keiichi Tsunekawa,Motoko Kawano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319550381

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Southeast Asia beyond Crises and Traps by Boo Teik Khoo,Keiichi Tsunekawa,Motoko Kawano Pdf

This book examines five countries in South East Asia that are instructive case studies of how the region has had to negotiate pathways of development beyond crises and traps. At two ends of just one decade, 1997–2007, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam all had to weather the shocks of an East Asian financial crisis and a global financial crisis. Some economies might have buckled completely under those shocks and been condemned to long-term stagnation. Yet these five economies, part of the larger Asian region, emerged with continued if slower economic growth. An important theme of this book is that their resilience has been partly derived from the pursuit of growth and competitiveness along less known or recommended pathways. The chapters of this book take a novel approach to South East Asia’s search for growth and improvement. They do not begin by evaluating how far macro-level performances would take a particular country towards high-income status. Instead they provide original insights into actual cases of intermediate ways of achieving growth, upgrading and income improvement in non-privileged sectors. Such cases may hold more relevant lessons for the majority of developing countries than the experiences of highly developed economies.

Author : Carolina G. Hernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351752886

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Development and Security in Southeast Asia by Carolina G. Hernandez Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. This three-volume set examines the relationship between government and civil society in their efforts to define and pursue security. Including the results of an extensive research program, each volume is organized around one of the three principal themes - environment, people and globalization, supplying compelling evidence of the tension between economic change and human well-being. Challenging the conventional wisdom about the beneficial results of economically induced change, this first volume suggests that too often the mismanagement of development jeopardizes the security of individuals, families, communities, and possibly the state, by harming the very environment which is required to sustain both people and their economic existence. Bringing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, this volume is particularly relevant for academic and general research communities in the areas of social, economic, political and security matters of Southeast Asia.