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International conflict in the Asia-Pacific : patterns, consequences, and management / Jacob Bercovitch and Mikio Oishi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bercovitch, Jacob, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Global Security Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conflict management--Asia.
- Conflict management.
- Conflict management--Pacific Area.
- Peace-building--Asia.
- Peace-building.
- Peace-building--Pacific Area.
- Asia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Asia.
- Pacific Area--Politics and government--21st century.
- Pacific Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage these conflicts.International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific brings together in one volume four major international conflicts that have shaped the region, and studies how they evolved and how best to manage them. The book seeks to find a pattern common to the four conflicts and their management as well as taking note of
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction: Conflict in the Asia-Pacific region in the post-Second World War period; 2 Conflict management and its application to conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region; 3 Management of conflict on the Korean Peninsula: From confrontation to sustaining a failing state; 4 Management of the rivalry across the Taiwan Strait: Addressing the transformation from ideological rivalry to ethnic conflict; 5 Management of the dispute over the Spratly Islands: Taming a dragon in the South China Sea
- 6 Management of the Indo-Pakistan conflict: Siamese twins inflicting lethal blows on each other7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-93880-X
- 1-136-93881-8
- 1-282-65611-2
- 9786612656118
- 0-203-84708-3
- 9780203847084
- OCLC:
- 646788146
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