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Title Asia-Pacific security : policy challenges / edited by David W. Lovell
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Canberra : Asia Pacific Press, 2003
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages)
Contents Australia and Asia-Pacific security after September 11: an introduction / David W. Lovell -- The challenges for Australian foreign-policy professionals / David W. Lovell -- The rhetoric of Australia's regional policy / James Cotton -- Australia's strategic options in the US-China relationship / Allen Behm -- China and Asia-Pacific security building the new century / Zhu Majie -- China's efforts as a responsible power / Xia Liping -- The knowledge-based economy in China: perceptions and facts / Tian Zhongquing -- China's 'new security concept' and Southeast Asia / Carlyle A. Thayer -- Chinese nationalism and its foreign policy implications / Zhang Jian -- Japan's missile defence dilemma / Aaron Matthews -- Security and stability in Southwest Asia / William Maley -- Mediating the global order: the past and future of Asia-Pacific regional organizations / Michael Wesley -- The constructivist challenge to the debate on East Asian security in the new century / Chen Dongxiao -- Australian-American relations in the new century: applying resuscitation or pursuing illusions? / William T. Tow
Summary Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the 'war on terror'; our governments have mobilized their resources for 'homeland security'; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks. Yet while the new threat is genuine, we must not lose sight of the continuing security concerns in the Asia-Pacific. Tensions persist on the Korean peninsula, in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea, and in Kashmir. The region is well supplied with weapons of mass destru .
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National security -- Australia.
National security -- China.
National security -- Asia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Foreign relations -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009590
China -- Foreign relations -- 1976- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024031
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Lovell, David W., 1956-
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
ISBN 9789812307088
9812307087