Asia-Pacific economic and security co-operation : new regional agendas / edited by Christopher M. Dent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dent, Christopher M., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization).

ASEAN.

National security--Economic aspects--Asia.

National security.

National security--Economic aspects--Pacific Area.

Regionalism--Asia.

Regionalism.

International economic relations.

National security--Economic aspects.

Asia.

Regionalism--Pacific Area.

Pacific Area.

Asia--Economic integration.

Pacific Area--Economic integration.

Asia--Foreign economic relations.

Pacific Area--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 271 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

It is both an exciting and critical time to be studying the Asia-Pacific's economic and security relations. The region has experienced a period of turbulent change since the mid-1990s. This has mainly centred on two 'shock events'; the first being the 1997-8 East Asian financial crisis; and the second the al-Queda terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001. These shocks had significant catalytic effects upon the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. Moreover, they revealed the extent of economic and security interdependence that connect different communities and states in the region, and consequently demonstrated the imperative to enhance different levels and forms of co-operative activity among them. This volume examines new developments in economic and security co-operation in the Asia-Pacific through the analytical lens of three 'prime dimensions': the tension between the post-shock forces of imperative cooperation and the counter-forces of Asia-Pacific complex diversity; the growing conflation between economic and security issues - or the economics-security nexus - in Asia-Pacific international relations; and the relationship between the Asia-Pacific's new economic and security bilateralism and regional-level forms of co-operation, integration and governance.

Contents:

1 New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific: An Introduction / Christopher M. Dent 3

Part II Global Contexts

2 Asia-Pacific Economic Regionalism: Global Constraints and Opportunities / Simon Lee 19

3 Globalisation and Security in East Asia / Christopher Hughes 34

Part III Regional Overviews

4 Asian Regionalism Five Years after the 1997/98 Financial Crisis: A Case of 'Co-operative Realism'? / Jurgen Ruland 53

5 The Asia-Pacific's New Economic Bilateralism and Regional Political Economy / Christopher M. Dent 72

6 Sea Power in the Asia-Pacific at the Turn of the Millennium / Eric Grove 95

Part IV Sub-Regional Studies

7 The War on Terror: Implications for the ASEAN Region / Jurgen Haacke 113

8 ASEAN: Challenged from Within and Without / Alan Collins 136

9 Sub-Regional Co-Operation in the Mekong Valley: Implications for Regional Security / Jorn Dosch 152

10 Democratization: A Threat to Peace and Stability in Southeast Asia? / Anja Jetschke 167

11 Changing China-Taiwan Relations and Asia-Pacific Regionalism: Economic Co-operation and Security Challenge / Rex Li 185

Part V Cyber Perspectives

12 Global Economic Change and Cyber Networks: East Asia's Economic Security Threats in Perspective / Neil Renwick 199

13 Regionalism Online: A Case Study of e-ASEAN / Xiudian Dai 220

14 Prime Dimensions of the New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific: A Conclusion / Christopher M. Dent 241.

Notes:

"This book contains the extended and revised versions of presentations given at the September 2002 research workshop entitled 'Asia-Pacific economic and security cooperation: new regional agendas'"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403918031

OCLC:

54108196