Comprehensive Security in Asia

Views from Asia and the West on a Changing Security Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

The term 'comprehensive security' goes beyond simplifications such as 'us' and 'them'; it accounts for all aspects vital to national stability; food, energy, environment, communication and social security. Confidence building methods, preventive diplomacy, energy security, second order cybernetics, transparancy of financial markets are all means to enhance overall stability. "Comprehensive Security" has become a concept particularly suited for a continent with many powerful countries. An important contribution to one of the key issues of contemporary (Asian) politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill / Brill NV
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9789004112025
• ISBN-10: 9004112022
• Artikelnr.: 22253925

Autorenporträt

Kurt W. Radtke, Ph.D. (1975) in Chinese, Australian National University, was Professor of Modern Japanese History at Leiden University, and is now Professor of Chinese and Japanese Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. His research focuses on comparative East Asian politics/society/history, and he is the author of China's Relations with Japan, 1945-83: The role of Liao Chengzhi (Manchester University Press, 1990) and several other books and numerous articles in that field. Raymond Feddema is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. (A Society in Crisis: Continuity and Change in the Tonkin Delta, 1802-1927) at the same university. At present his main field of research are the political economies of Southeast and East Asian countries in relation to their particular cultures and their links to the global economy.