Introduction / Desmond Ball -- The Problem With Parachuting: Strategic Studies and Security in the Asia/Pacific Region / Nicola Baker and Leonard C. Sebastian -- The Economic Aspects of Security in the Asia/Pacific Region / Stuart Harris -- Regime Transition in the Asia/Pacific Region: Democratization as a Double-Edged Sword / Steve Chan -- The US Commitment to Asia / Robert A. Scalapino -- A Militarized Japan? / David Arase -- A Chinese Colossus? / Harry Harding -- The External Maritime Dimension of ASEAN Security / J. N. Mak and B. A. Hamzah -- A Regional Arms Race? / Panitan Wattanayagorn and Desmond Ball -- A Regional Security Community in Southeast Asia? / Amitav Acharya -- The Prospects for Multilateral Security Co-operation in the Asia/Pacific Region / Paul M. Evans -- A Security Framework for the Asia/Pacific Region / Satoshi Morimoto
Analysis
ASEAN
Asia, East
Asia, Southeast
Democracy
Economic development
Military balance
Military preparedness assessment
Overseas item
Political and economic integration
Political stability
Regional security
United States
Notes
This group of studies first appeared in a Special issue on 'The transformation of security in the Asia/Pacific Region of The journal of strategic studies, vol. 48, no. 3"--T.p. verso