Asian Pacific Politics
The Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia
Towards an Ethical Explanation
Despite a long-held ASEAN principle of non-intervention, this theoretically rich book argues that there is an embryonic ethic of regional responsibility emerging among the countries of southeast Asia which reflects an evolution of attitudes about state sovereignty.
Security, Strategy, and Military Dynamics in the South China Sea
Cross-National Perspectives
Bringing together international experts, this collection provides fresh perspectives on geopolitical concerns in the South China Sea. It is an accessible, even-handed examination of current and future rivalries and challenges in one of the most strategically important and militarized maritime regions of the world.
The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of the South Asia to Gulf migration corridor. The conclusions drawn enable readers to better understand migration in this region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.
South Asian Regionalism
The Limits of Cooperation
Tracing the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and explaining its outcome and effects, this book draws lessons about the dynamics of regionalism. Engaging key IR perspectives, it charts the limits of regional cooperation and calls for fresh perspectives on the issue.
Surviving Everyday Life
The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan
Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves.
The Unheard Stories of the Rohingyas
Ethnicity, Diversity and Media
The 2017 persecution of the Rohingyas resulted in around a million Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, India and Malaysia. This book investigates the complex challenges of managing the large-scale refugee exodus in Bangladesh and how best to resolve these challenges in the future.
The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations
Geographies of Rivalry
This book provides a multifaceted and spatially oriented analysis of how China’s re-emergence as a global power impacts the dominance of the United States as well as domestic state and non-state actors in various world-regions, including the Asia-Pacific, Africa, South America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and the Arctic.