Asia’s Emerging Regional Order

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The concept of ‘human security’ has captured the attention of both national policy-makers and independent analysts throughout Asia. Its most compelling feature is an emphasis on the social, economic, and political well being of individuals, linking international security to the community and to the individual rather than restricting it to the purview of the state. The concept is especially relevant to an Asia-Pacific region which is experiencing immense structural changes. Indeed, immense human security problems threaten to overwhelm Asian states’ capacities to resolve them: falling real incomes and rising poverty levels; destabilizing migration flows; food shortages and malnutrition; declining public health and education; and intensifying crime rates. These problems cannot be solved by deploying military forces or relying on international diplomats to fashion traditional power balances along state-centric lines. They must instead be resolved through cooperative interaction among intellectual communities, government leaders, grass-roots organisations, and the general public. Most fundamentally, governments must initiate and sustain more direct ties with those over whom they presume to serve. In this volume the authors offer several proposals for integrating traditional and human security approaches, including supplementing the ASEA Regional Forum with a more ‘Asia-centric’ security dialogue structure, developing groups of experts or ‘epistemic communities’ that could more readily influence policy-making elites in the region, and linking grass-roots environmental groups, anti-nuclear groups, and others to first and second track for a invested with identifying new regional security approaches.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR In-Taek Hyun

In-Taek Hyun is Associate Professor of Political Science at Korea University, Seoul, and Research Director of the University's Ilmin International Relations Institute.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is Professor and Vice Rector at the United Nations University, Tokyo. A leading interntional authority on UN issues and peacekeeping, he is the author/editor of eighteen books and has written over 150 articles for reputed international journals. He has also served as a commissioner of the Interntional Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which came out with the document Responsibility to Protect in 2001.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR William T. Tow

William T. Tow is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Queensland's Department of Government and Director of the International Relations and Asia-Politics Research Institute, Brisbane.

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Title
Asia’s Emerging Regional Order
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170491975
Length
x+342p., Notes; Index; 26cm.
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