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This book examines Indonesia's strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, focusing especially on Indonesia's efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) administration from 2014 until the present.

"This book provides a comprehensive assessment of India's international relations in the Asia Pacific region. It charts the development of India's increasingly important role as a major world power, discusses India's international relations strategy and examines India's relationship with each of the major countries of East and Southeast Asia."--Publisher's description.

Examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. This book demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN.

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security. 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.

Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on its major, contentious maritime territorial disputes.

Covers US sanctions policy in the Asia-Pacific. Using the Bill Clinton and George W Bush presidencies as a basis for comparison, this book examines nine prominent episodes involving the US use of sanctions toward countries in this economically and strategically vital part of the world.

Examines Japan's identity as an important participant in conflict prevention and peace-building in Southeast and South Asia. This book describes the attempts by Japan to bring peace to Aceh, Sri Lanka, East Timor and Mindanao.

Pakistan is a vitally important country in the contemporary global political system. This book provides a comprehensive study of a nuclear-armed Pakistan, investigating the implications of its emergence as a nuclear weapons state.

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This book shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt. And discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed in the region and other countries - with India and Australia being of particular importance.

This book explores the very latest developments in the South China Sea maritime dispute.

This book explores human security in East Asia, focusing especially on the challenges of coordination and collaboration among actors involved in securing and promoting human security. It includes detailed case studies of military interventions in East Asia, including East Timor, and also non-military interventions, including international criminal justice in Cambodia.

The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. This book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of Australia-Japan defence contacts from the early post-war period to the present.

With energy security being one of the central issues facing the world today, this book is a timely and impressive appraisal of the major energy security issues facing Asia.

"South Asiäs Nuclear Security provides a detailed account of the nuclear security predicament in South Asia. From the perspectives of both the optimists and pessimists, Chakma elaborates on the multitude of factors that have contributed to the ever-tumultuous Indo-Pakistani security relations. Each chapter contains a rich bibliographical reference section highlighting a very detailed analysis of the nuclear issue in the region...Chakma provides an important and prominent case for the advancement of sub-systemic approaches to security, highlighting the need in understanding sub- systemic security dynamics as well."Bibek Chand, Florida International University, USAJournal of Asian Security and International Affairs 2015, 341-343

Barack Obamäs "rebalancing strategy" or "pivot strategy", intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia Pacific region in a variety of military, economic and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is a focus on China and also a US relience on existing regional allies to implement its strategy. This book explores the impact of the new strategy on the US¿s allies in the region, and the allies¿ responses. Overall, the book outlines the deep complexities of the United States¿ exercise of power and influence in the region.

The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan, Korea as well as southern China. It has been the focus of a maritime dispute which has continued now for over six decades, with competing claims from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei. Recently China has become more assertive in pressing its claims ΓÇô harassing Vietnamese fishing vessels and seizing reefs in the Philippine claim zone. China has insisted that it has "indisputable sovereignty" over the area and has threatened to enforce its claim. All of this is unsettling and draws in the United States which is concerned about freedom of navigation in the area. The US has been supporting the Philippines and has been developing security ties with Vietnam as a check upon China. This book examines the conflict potential of the current dispute, it discusses how the main claimants and the United States view the issue, and assesses the prospects for a resolution of the problem.

This book shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt. And discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed in the region and other countries - with India and Australia being of particular importance.

This book examines the nature of political transitions in Southeast Asia and why political transitions toward political liberalisation and democracy have failed to take off. It considers political systems in the region that have gone through significant periods of transition but continue to face serious challenges toward democratic consolidation.

The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan, Korea as well as southern China. It has been the focus of a maritime dispute which has continued now for over six decades, with competing claims from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei. Recently China has become more assertive in pressing its claims. China has insisted that it has "indisputable sovereignty" over the area and has threatened to enforce its claim. This book examines the conflict potential of the current dispute, it discusses how the main claimants and the United States view the issue, and assesses the prospects for a resolution of the problem.

Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation in the region, arguing that eventually multilateral associations such as ASEAN will in time replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the predominant form of security co-operation in Cold War times and which continue as the primary means of the United States¿ engagement with the region, for example the US alliances with Japan and South Korea. This book contends, on the other hand, that bilateralism and multilateralism are not mutually exclusive, and that bilateralism is likely to continue strong even as multilateralism strengthens.