Asia's Security

Robert Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he works closely with the Centre for Strategic Studies. He gained his PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at King's College London, UK and his MA as a Freyberg Scholar to the Australian National University. His previous writing includes Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age (Frank Cass, 2004) and Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is an Honorary Professor with the New Zealand Defence Force Command and Staff College and Adjunct Professor with the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Asia’s Security, provides a valuable guide for those looking to make sense of it all … the author provides a crisp, systematic and readable analysis of what really constitutes security in Asia and what (if anything) can be clone to manage it better … Those seeking to understand what is really happening in Asia, where New Zealand's interests are as much engaged as ever, will find this a most useful book.

• 1. Introduction: How Should Asia's Security Be Approached?2. Peace: Why Does Asia Seem More Secure?3. Power: Is It All About the US and China?4. Money: Can Economic Interdependence Keep Asia Safe?5. Guns: Will Military Technology Lead to New Conflict in Asia?6. Rivalry: Will Territorial Competition and Nationalism Ruin Asia's Peace?7. Fragmentation: Are Asia's Main Security Problems Domestic Ones?8. Hazards: Will Non-state Actors & Transnational challenges overtake Asia?9. Interference: Can Intervention Work in Today's Asia?10. Solidarity: Can Asia Work Together on Security?11. Division: Will Alliances and Partnerships Separate the region?12. Conclusion: Towards a New Asian Security?