Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific

367 Pages·2006·7.88 MB·English

by  Robert Ayson, Desmond Ball

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First published in 2006
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Strategy and security in the Asia Pacific.
Includes index.
ISBN 1 74114 798 0.
1. Terrorism - Asia - Prevention. 2. Terrorism - Pacific
Area - Prevention. 3. National security - Asia.
4. National security - Pacific Area. 1. Ayson, Robert.
IT Ball, Desmond, 1947- .
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Strategy and
Security in the
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Contents
Map ii
Abbreviations and acronyms ix
Chronology xiii
About the contributors xvi
Preface Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball xxi
Strategy and security today
1. Studying strategy today Hugh White 3
2. Concepts for strategy and security Robert Ayson 10
3. The international system and changing strategic norms
Coral Bell 25
4. Contemporary military operations Michael Evans 39
5. Defence transformation Alan Stephens and David Connery 55
6. Terrorism Clive Williams 71
7. Weapons of mass destruction? Christian Enemark 88
8. Transnational security Alan Dupont 103
9. Human security and intervention RameshThakur 121
10. Economics and security Brendan Taylor and Bruce Luckham 138
11. Critical approaches to security and strategy Anthony Burke 152
Asia-Pacific strategic and security issues
12. America and the Asia-Pacific region Paul Dibb 173
13. Northeast Asian security challenges Ron Huisken 191
14. Southeast Asian security challenges David Wright-Neville 210
15. South Asian security challenges Sandy Gordon 226
16. Australasian security Robert Ayson 242
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17. South Pacific security David Hegarty and Anna Powles 257
18. Regional security cooperation Desmond Ball and
Brendan Taylor 270
Notes 284
Further reading 319
Index 330
Abbreviations and
acronyms
ABM anti-ballistic missile
ADF Australian Defence Force
AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ANL Action for National Liberation
ANZAC Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
ANZUS Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the
United States of America
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APHC All Parties Hurriyat Conference
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ASA Association of Southeast Asia
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN-ISIS ASEAN Institutes for Strategic and International Studies
AWAC airborne warning and control
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian Peoples Party)
BMD ballistic missile defence
BRN Barisan Revolusi Nasional (National Revolutionary Front)
BW biological weapons
BWC Biological Weapons Convention
CBM confidence-building measure
CDR Closer Defence Relations (between Australia and New
Zealand)
CENTO Central Treaty Organisation
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
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CMEA Council of Mutual Economic Aid
CSCAP Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
CW chemical weapons
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
DAC Declaration of ASEAN Concord
DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
EBO Effects-Based Operations
ECP Enhanced Cooperation Package
EEC European Economic Community
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
ELINT electronic intelligence
ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Liberty)
EU European Union
FARC Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
(Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)
FOFA follow-on-forces attack
FPDA Five Power Defence Arrangements
ETA free trade agreement
GAM Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh Movement)
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP gross domestic product
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile
ICC International Criminal Court
ICT information and communications technology
IDF Israeli Defense Force
IED improvised explosive device
IISS International Institute for Strategic Studies
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMO International Maritime Organisation
InterFET International Force East Timor
IRA Irish Republican Army
ISR intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
ISTAR intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and
reconnaissance
JDAM joint direct attack munition
JI Jemaah Islamiyah
JSDF Japanese Self-Defense Force