The unraveling of Island Asia? : governmental, communal, and regional instability / edited by Bruce Vaughn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaughn, Bruce, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Oceania.

National security--Southeast Asia.

Oceania--Politics and government.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government.

Oceania--Strategic aspects.

Southeast Asia--Strategic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I. OVERVIEW

1. Internal Conflict and Regional Security in Island Asia:

Stabilizing the "Arc of Instability"

Benjamin Reilly

PART II. STATE- AND TERRITORIAL-FOCUSED CHAPTERS

2. Indonesia: The Regional Giant

John B. Haseman

3. Deep Insecurity and Political Stability:

Inside Mahathir's Malaysia

William Case

4. Mindanao and Its Impact on Security in the Philippines

David G. Wiencek

5. Rethinking Security in the South Pacific:

Fiji and the Solomon Islands

Sandra Tarte and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka

6. Tensions in Micronesia

Stephen Hoadley

7. The Bougainville Peace Process:

The "Pacific" Settlement of Disputes?

Bede Corry

PART III. REGIONALLY FOCUSED CHAPTERS

8. Regional Transnational Security Challenges

Peter Chalk

9. External Power Engagement in Melanesia

Henry S. Albinski

10. The United States and the Region

William Tow

11. Secur(itiz)ing the Environment:

Unraveling Environmental Security in Pacific Asia

Lorraine Elliott

12. Post-Financial Crisis Assessment and AFTA-CER Trade

Relations

Sean McDonald.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216030911

9786610373727

9781280373725

1280373725

9780313010842

0313010846

OCLC:

70731880