Critical security in the Asia-Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Burke, Anthony; Mcdonald, Matt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional interstate strategic dynamics. Critical security in the Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities. Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the 'war on terror' and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated and accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526162854
• Artikelnr.: 62046805

Autorenporträt

Anthony Burke teaches International Relations and Security Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Matt McDonald is Assistant Professor in International Security at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Asia
Pacific security legacies and futures
Matt McDonald & Anthony Burke PART I: AGENTS 1. Regionalism and security in East Asia
Julie Gilson 2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia
Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes 3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia
Pacific
Mark Beeson 4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale of two 'Essentialisms'
See Seng Tan PART II: STRATEGIES AND CONTEXTS 5. Constructing separatist threats: security and insecurity in Indonesian Aceh and Papua
Edward Aspinal and Richard Chauvel 6. Freedom from fear: conflict, displacement and human security in Burma (Myanmar)
Hazel Lang 7. Australia paranoid: security politics and identity policy
Anthony Burke 8. Harm and emancipation: making environmental security 'critical' in the Asia
Pacific
Lorraine Elliott 9. Seeking security for refugees
Sara Davies 10. Discourses of security in China: towards a critical turn?
Yongjin Zhang 11. Nuclear weapons in the Asia
Pacific: a critical security appraisal
Marianne Hanson 12. US hegemony, the war on terror and security in the Asia
Pacific
Matt McDonald PART III: FUTURES 13. Dealing with North Korea: conventional and alternative security scenarios
Roland Bleiker 14. Security as enslavement, security as emancipation: gendered legacies and feminist futures in the Asia
Pacific
Katrina Lee Koo Conclusion: emancipating security in the Asia
Pacific?
Simon Dalby