Bücher der Reihe Asian Security Studies

Offers a study of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which is the multilateral vehicle of cooperative security bringing together all the world's major powers: the United States, China, Japan, India, Russia, and the European Union. This book offers an account of the relevance of the ARF in Asia-Pacific regional security.

Offering an evaluation of Taiwan's defence forces and infrastructure, this book also examines Taiwan's armed forces, its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations. It is useful for students of East Asian security and Sino-American relations and for international and security studies in general.

Provides an understanding of China's strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. This work explores similarities between China's strategic outlook and that of continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony.

The book examines a new approach to Chinese foreign policy development in the post-cold war international order.

Presents an analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This book examines and explains the driving forces behind, the methods and the consequences of China using force against Taiwan. It is useful for students and scholars of military and security studies, and international relations.

This edited volume looks at contemporary Chinese civil-military relations, emphasising that the PLA is shifting from political to military tasks.

Offers diverse and comprehensive views of China's rise and its implications to the East Asian region and beyond. This book integrates geopolitical and domestic political analysis of China with a set of transnational security issues, and includes a diversity of regional views.

Traces the origins, evolution and the state of Indo-US strategic cooperation. This volume analyzes the strategic convergence of the world's two largest democracies, whilst explaining why important differences do remain. It is of interest to students of South Asian politics, Asian security, US foreign policy and security studies in general.

Explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment. This volume creates a dialogue between scholars who believe that nuclear weapons have stabilized the subcontinent, and those who believe that nuclear weapons have made South Asia more conflict prone.

Examining the major academic and policy debates over China's rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China. This work studies the beliefs of contemporary Chinese leaders and their strategic interactions with other states since 1949 when the communist regime came to power.

Investigates China's counter insurgency effort, highlighting the success of an approach centred on reshaping local society and government institutions. This book raises the question of what the United States may be able to learn from China's approach, and argues that a case as Xinjiang needs to be examined in order for terrorism to be defeated.

Interethnic competition in plural societies is often characterized by a 'counterbalance' of political and economic strength between different groups. This book develops a model that explains how and why interethnic bargains between rival groups can erode given different institutional configurations.