Bücher von Mark Beeson

What does it mean to be secure in the 21st century? Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about national and even global security reflect untenable, anachronistic strategic views that are simply no longer appropriate for contemporary international circumstances. At a time when climate change poses an existential threat to the continuation of life itself, Beeson argues that there is an urgent need to rethink security priorities while we still can. Providing an explanation of the failures and dangers of the conventional wisdom, he outlines the case for a new approach that takes issues like environmental and human security seriously.

This book evaluates climate change and populism, two ideas that do not generally go together. In this book, the author explains why populist forms of political action may yet provide the key to effective policies, which are often discussed but less frequently implemented.

A consideration of crucial questions that have emerged as a result of the economic crisis in East Asia. It focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, and more.

The Asia-Pacific is arguably the important, but also the complex and contested, region on the planet. This book examines how this region is developing, and what role established organisations like APEC and bodies like ASEAN are playing in this process.