Critical security in the Asia-Pacific

By: Anthony Burke (Editor), Matt McDonald (Editor), Emmanuel Pierre Guittet (Editor)

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In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional interstate strategic dynamics.

Critical security in the Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities. Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the 'war on terror' and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated and accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable.

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"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.

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Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures	p. 1
Agents
Regionalism and security in East Asia	p. 25
Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia	p. 41
The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific	p. 56
Deconstructing the discourse on epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale of two 'essentialisms'	p. 72
Strategies and Contexts
Constructing separatist threats: security and insecurity in Indonesian Aceh and Papua	p. 89
'Freedom from fear': conflict, displacement and human security in Burma (Myanmar)	p. 105
Australia paranoid: security politics and identity policy	p. 121
Harm and emancipation: making environmental security 'critical' in the Asia-Pacific	p. 136
Seeking security for refugees	p. 152
Discourses of security in China: towards a critical turn?	p. 167
Nuclear weapons in the Asia-Pacific: a critical security appraisal	p. 183
US hegemony, the 'war on terror' and security in the Asia-Pacific	p. 198
Futures
Dealing with a nuclear North Korea: conventional and alternative security scenarios	p. 215
Security as enslavement, security as emancipation: gendered legacies and feminist futures in the Asia-Pacific	p. 231
Conclusion: emancipating security in the Asia-Pacific?	p. 247
References	p. 264
Index	p. 301
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