Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/23477970231173538
Rafyoga Jehan Pratama Irsadanar
This research explains how the changing geostrategic realm impacts the security policy of a state. From this context, this article aims to investigate Japan’s geostrategic interest in expanding its security and defence policy to Southeast Asia under the 2012–2020 Abe administration, with Indonesia as the case study. This research employed a disciplined configurative case study method with geostrategic theory as the analysis framework. This research found that Japan’s expanding security and defence cooperation with Indonesia is caused by the increasing geostrategic vulnerability in the Indo-Pacific area, mainly concerning China’s geostrategy under Xi Jinping called China Dream. Japan seeks to prevent China’s growing geostrategic influence in mainland Asia, which is on the northern side, from going southward to the Indo-Pacific area. To that end, expanded security and defence cooperation with Indonesia is important to maintain the stability of Southeast Asia as a connector of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/23477970231173539
Ai Nhan Ho
This article discusses and analyses the various challenges that countries are facing in maintaining a rules-based order as an important condition for the direction of peace, stability, and development of the South China Sea area. Within the scope of the article, the challenges identified and discussed are (a) China’s assertive actions and behaviours; (b) negative international practices; (c) the ambiguity of international law provisions, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; (d) ineffective international law enforcement; and (e) challenges from the counterbalance and competition for international influence among great powers. Given these challenges and the increasingly complex situation of the region, the research demonstrates that the future of any rules-based order in the South China Sea will be increasingly contested, in which the efforts and determination of a few individual regional countries are far from enough.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/23477970231195192
Bob de Graaff, Aidan Parkes
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/23477970231173547
Hyo Joon Chang
Robert R. King and Gi-Wook Shin (Eds.), The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security. Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2022, xviii + 250 pp. (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-931368-65-0.
Robert R. King和Gi-Wook Shin(编)，朝鲜难题:平衡人权和核安全。斯坦福:Walter H. Shorenstein亚太研究中心，2022,xviii + 250页(平装本)。ISBN: 978-1-931368-65-0。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152014
M. Mietzner
In 1998, Indonesia endeavoured to civilianise its defence department after decades of military-dominated rule. This civilianisation project was widely seen as a crucial element of democratisation itself. But the initiative ended in disillusionment: by 2014, the ministry was again placed under a conservative former general, and in 2019, it came under the control of Prabowo Subianto, an ambitious ex-military leader with strong ties to the pre-1998 autocratic regime. As a result, the reform drive in the ministry came to a halt, and civilians were marginalised again. This article argues that several factors account for this reform failure: first, the ministry’s long subordination to the military prior to 1998; second, the lack of will and power on the part of civilian ministers between 1999 and 2014 to pursue meaningful reforms; and third, a larger roll-back of democratic reforms beginning in the 2010s. Embedding these latest developments in a larger historical context, the article demonstrates that the defence ministry has been a barometer of Indonesia’s fluctuating democratic quality over time.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152019
T. Paul
Ashley J. Tellis, Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2022, 303 pp., (electronic). ISBN: NA.
{"title":"Book review: Ashley J. Tellis, Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia","authors":"T. Paul","doi":"10.1177/23477970231152019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970231152019","url":null,"abstract":"Ashley J. Tellis, Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2022, 303 pp., (electronic). ISBN: NA.","PeriodicalId":42502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs","volume":"10 1","pages":"122 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47924200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-25DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152027
Crystal Whetstone, Luna K. C.
Saviour politics permeates some understandings of global gender norms by those who construct the Global North as the origin of global gender norms, and less attention is given to how saviour politics functions within the Global South, wielded by some privileged women against grassroots women. We argue that grassroots Global South women, despite their marginalisation, are global gender norms actors and deserve greater decision-making power on the local and international stages. We show how the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and the broader WPS agenda focus on global gender norms construction in Nepal and Sri Lanka. We rely on qualitative methods. We highlight work done by grassroots women from diverse castes, ethnicities, religious backgrounds, abilities, education and social locations that construct global gender norms. This article adds to the WPS, Global South-Global North relations and global gender norms building.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-25DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152013
Anupama Vijayakumar, Vineetha Krishnan
Pacifism has been the cornerstone of Japan’s identity in the post-1945 era. In the light of its changing threat perception in the post-Cold War period, Japan has been increasingly pursuing autonomy in the security domain while stretching the limits of its pacifist identity. It has hence sought to build a strong technological base to support its latent military capabilities. This article attempts to contextualise Japan’s pursuit of autonomy in outer space amid growing security competition in the domain. It discusses the legal and organisational changes that have allowed for a growing involvement of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces in operating space assets. The potential counterspace applications of major technological capabilities shown by Japan in the civilian and commercial space sectors are assessed. The article surmises that Japan, which has a global reputation as a benign space power, can continue to refine its latent counterspace capabilities amidst a pursuit of autonomy, without straying much from its pacifist traditions.
{"title":"Pursuit of Autonomy: An Assessment of Japan’s Latent Counterspace Capabilities","authors":"Anupama Vijayakumar, Vineetha Krishnan","doi":"10.1177/23477970231152013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970231152013","url":null,"abstract":"Pacifism has been the cornerstone of Japan’s identity in the post-1945 era. In the light of its changing threat perception in the post-Cold War period, Japan has been increasingly pursuing autonomy in the security domain while stretching the limits of its pacifist identity. It has hence sought to build a strong technological base to support its latent military capabilities. This article attempts to contextualise Japan’s pursuit of autonomy in outer space amid growing security competition in the domain. It discusses the legal and organisational changes that have allowed for a growing involvement of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces in operating space assets. The potential counterspace applications of major technological capabilities shown by Japan in the civilian and commercial space sectors are assessed. The article surmises that Japan, which has a global reputation as a benign space power, can continue to refine its latent counterspace capabilities amidst a pursuit of autonomy, without straying much from its pacifist traditions.","PeriodicalId":42502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs","volume":"10 1","pages":"24 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48175275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152033
Sayantan Haldar
Bhubhindar Singh and Sarah Teo (Eds.), Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Lancang Mekong Cooperation Mechanism, and ASEAN. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 134 pp., £35.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-367-43037-5.
{"title":"Book review: Bhubhindar Singh and Sarah Teo (Eds.), Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Lancang Mekong Cooperation Mechanism, and ASEAN","authors":"Sayantan Haldar","doi":"10.1177/23477970231152033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970231152033","url":null,"abstract":"Bhubhindar Singh and Sarah Teo (Eds.), Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Lancang Mekong Cooperation Mechanism, and ASEAN. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 134 pp., £35.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-367-43037-5.","PeriodicalId":42502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs","volume":"10 1","pages":"125 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1177/23477970231152035
J. Alam
Kanti Bajpai, India versus China: Why They Are Not Friends. New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2021, 284 pp., ₹599 (Hardbound). ISBN 978-93-9116-508-6.
Kanti Bajpai，《印度与中国：为什么他们不是朋友》。新德里：Juggernaut Books，2021，284页。，₹599（硬绑定）。是978-93-9116-508-6。
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