This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the war on terror and the plight of refugees. -- .
Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures - Matt McDonald & Anthony Burke PART I: AGENTS 1. Regionalism and security in East Asia - Julie Gilson 2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia - Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes 3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific - Mark Beeson 4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale of two ‘Essentialisms’ - See Seng Tan PART II: STRATEGIES AND CONTEXTS 5. Constructing separatist threats: security and insecurity in Indonesian Aceh and Papua - Edward Aspinal and Richard Chauvel 6. Freedom from fear: conflict, displacement and human security in Burma (Myanmar) - Hazel Lang 7. Australia paranoid: security politics and identity policy - Anthony Burke 8. Harm and emancipation: making environmental security ‘critical’ in the Asia-Pacific - Lorraine Elliott 9. Seeking security for refugees - Sara Davies 10. Discourses of security in China: towards a critical turn? - Yongjin Zhang 11. Nuclear weapons in the Asia-Pacific: a critical security appraisal - Marianne Hanson 12. US hegemony, the war on terror and security in the Asia-Pacific - Matt McDonald PART III: FUTURES 13. Dealing with North Korea: conventional and alternative security scenarios - Roland Bleiker 14. Security as enslavement, security as emancipation: gendered legacies and feminist futures in the Asia-Pacific - Katrina Lee Koo Conclusion: emancipating security in the Asia-Pacific? - Simon Dalby -- .
Anthony Burke teaches International Relations and Security Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Matt McDonald is Assistant Professor in International Security at the University of Warwick
Reviews for Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific
Challenges us to look beyond the available scholarship on Asia-Pacific regional security. Its claims about what constitute core security issues in the region, what is missing from existing analyses, and how to move forward are sure to provoke healthy disagreement and debate among Asian security experts about the 'state of their art'. --Amitav Acharya, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
