Bruce Vaughn

The Unraveling of Island Asia? (eBook, PDF)

Governmental, Communal, and Regional Instability

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection takes a primary focus on security issues in Oceania, but here the word security is expanded to include such topics as domestic Indonesian and Philippine instability, environmental degradation, the work of international crime syndicates, the generic problem of post-colonial state failure, and the always overhanging concern with China-in short all of the significant troubles roiling Island Asia today. Using this expanded notion of security and stability, the volume pulls in new anxieties about global warming, which may submerge half of the South Pacific microstates within the next 30 years, and pollution, which covers Indonesia nad Malaysia in thick smoke now visible from space, as well as traversing the more traditional security and economic issues. Vaughn and his contributors describe a 7,000-mile swath of wobbly island states ranging from the world's fourth most populous country to tiny bogus sovereignties in thrall to globalized criminals-through which more than $1 trillion worth of goods move each year. An important resource for scholars, students, researchers, and policy makers involved with Oceania and Asian studies as well as contemporary geo-political concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313010842
• Artikelnr.: 68528439

Autorenporträt

BRUCE VAUGHN is Adjunct Professor, Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Defense Analyst, Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: The Unraveling of Island Asia? by Bruce Vaughn and
James Clad Overview Internal Conflict and Regional Security in Island Asia:
Stabilizing the `Arc of Instability' by Benjamin Reilly State and
Territorial Focused Chapters Indomesia: The Regional Giant by John B.
Haseman Deep Insecurity and Political Stability: Inside Mahathir's Malaysia
by William Case Mindanao and its Impact on Security in the Philippines by
David Wienceck Rethinking Security in the South Pacific: Fiji and Solomon
Islands by Sandra Tarte and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka Tensions in
Micronesia by Stephen Hoadley The Bougainville Peace Process: The "Pacific"
Settlement of Disputes? by Bede Corry Regionally Focused Chapter Regional
Trans-National Security Challenges by Peter Chalk External Power Engagement
in Melanesia by Henry S. Albinski The United States and the Region by
William Tow Secur(it is)ing the Environment: Unraveling Environmental
Security in Pacific Asia by Lorraine Elliott Post Financial Crisis
Assessment and CER-AFTA Trade Relations by Sean McDonald Index