Controlling Arms and Terror in the Asia Pacific: After Bali and Baghdad - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845424050 ISBN 13: 9781845424053

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Years after 9/11, the Global War on Terror is still not over. The deepening crisis in Iraq has been accompanied by rising violence in Asia, as the bombings in Indonesia show. The 18 specialists and policymakers who have contributed to this book assess how the security scenario in the Asia-Pacific has changed in response to these events.

The Asia Pacific is rent by communal conflicts that have generated local jihads, which fuel regional and global jihads. This book assesses state responses to terrorism, paying attention to neglected factors such as money laundering, the emerging role of the EU, the growing fear of the US and increasing concern about the way anti-terrorist legislation curtails civil liberties. With the benefit of extensive fieldwork and access to unique sources in many languages, the contributors analyze key features of the local security scenarios. Pakistan's precarious situation is explored here from many angles, including Islamic militancy, the role of the military and the peace process with India. Again, domestic failures support regional and global terror. Regional anti-terrorist collaboration is also hampered by South-east Asia's counter-terrorism dilemmas, setbacks in the Philippine-US security relationship, the Asian arms race, and growing fears of the US National Missile Defence system and how this system will be perceived by China. The history of state sponsored terrorism and millenarian ideology are crucial to these regional scenarios. The latter, in the particular form of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo movement, reminds us that militant Islamists are not uniquely destructive.

An important addition to the literature on terrorism and security, this in-depth and comprehensive analysis of a complex and increasingly unstable region will be welcomed by political scientists, scholars, policymakers, and those seeking a better understanding of whether the Global War on Terror has changed the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific in a positive way.

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About the Author

Edited by Marika Vicziany, Professor of Asian Political Economy and Director, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia

Review

`. . . well-thought-out approach to the topic and the presentation of needed, broad and deep insights. This volume provides an important overview of material on and related to controlling arms and terror in the Asia Pacific.' -- Ilan Kelman, Pacific Affairs

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845424050
• ISBN 13: 9781845424053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Viciziany Marika