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Routledge Security in Asia Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East on all aspects of security in Asia.

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The US Navy and the South China Sea American, Chinese, and Vietnamese Maritime Relations, 1945-2023

The US Navy and the South China Sea: American, Chinese, and Vietnamese Maritime Relations, 1945-2023

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Bruce A Elleman
August 19, 2024

This book explores the question “Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?” It traces the history of diplomatic, economic, and military tensions among the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, outlining the origins of the ...

The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia The Origins of a Cooperative Strategy for Twenty-First Century Seapower

The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia: The Origins of a Cooperative Strategy for Twenty-First Century Seapower

1st Edition

By Bruce A. Elleman
June 30, 2023

This book examines the origins of the US Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US government’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. Besides examining the details of this strategy formulation, the book explores ...

The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Useful Rivalry

The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Useful Rivalry

1st Edition

By Anna Costa
December 12, 2019

This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.  It charts the development of a dispute that has become a potential flashpoint for conflict between the two countries. The book...

Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia The Politics of Military Operations Other Than War

Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia: The Politics of Military Operations Other Than War

1st Edition

By Muhamad Haripin
September 11, 2019

This book examines military operations other than war (MOOTW) of the Indonesian military in the post-Suharto period and argues that the twin development of democratic consolidation, marked by ‘stable’ civil–military relations from 2004 to 2014 under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s presidency, and ...

Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace

Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace

1st Edition

By Rizwana Abbasi, Zafar Khan
July 08, 2019

This book explores evolving patterns of nuclear deterrence, the impact of new technologies, and changing deterrent force postures in the South Asian region to assess future challenges for sustainable peace and stability. Under the core principles of the security dilemma, this book analyzes the ...

Vietnam, Territoriality and the South China Sea Paracel and Spratly Islands

Vietnam, Territoriality and the South China Sea: Paracel and Spratly Islands

1st Edition

By Hãn Nguyên Nguyễn Nhã, Vinh-The Lam
October 09, 2018

The conflict in the South China Sea, especially the sovereignty over Paracel and Spratly Islands, is of international interest and significance. Territorial claims from various countries impact on maritime freedom and result in the exploitation of natural resources in either international waters or...

Taiwan's Security and Air Power Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat from Mainland China

Taiwan's Security and Air Power: Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat from Mainland China

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Edmonds, Michael Tsai
August 14, 2018

Recent concern about mainland China's intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to growing interest in Taiwan's military strategy. This book brings together a range of experts from the West and from Taiwan itself who examine the key ...

Arming Asia Technonationalism and its Impact on Local Defense Industries

Arming Asia: Technonationalism and its Impact on Local Defense Industries

1st Edition

By Richard Bitzinger
January 24, 2017

Bitzinger examines the phenomenon of attempted self-reliance in arms production within Asia, and assesses the extent of success in balancing this independence with the growing requirements of next-generation weapons systems. He analyzes China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. The ...

The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute Okinawa's Reversion and the Senkaku Islands

The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute: Okinawa's Reversion and the Senkaku Islands

1st Edition

By Robert Eldridge
July 27, 2016

Ownership of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is disputed between China and Japan, though historically the islands have been part of Okinawa, the southernmost islands of the Japanese archipelago. The dispute, which also involves Taiwan, has the potential to be a flashpoint between the two ...

India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle

India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle

1st Edition

By Ashok Kapur
February 29, 2016

This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how two enmities – Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani – and one friendship – Sino-Pakistani – defined the distribution of power and the patterns of relationships ...

China's Strategic Competition with the United States

China's Strategic Competition with the United States

1st Edition

By Russell Ong
October 03, 2013

This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted nature of the relationship between US and China in the post-Cold War era. It examines their nature and implications of their strategic competition in military, political and economic terms, as well as in relation to Taiwan, Japan, the ...

Southeast Asia and the Rise of China The Search for Security

Southeast Asia and the Rise of China: The Search for Security

1st Edition

By Ian Storey
February 13, 2013

Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ...

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