Security Handbook 2008. Emerging Powers in East Asia: China, Russia and India

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans J. Gießmann

doi:10.5771/9783845206998

Summary

Security Handbook is a series on regional security developments and cooperation. Security Handbook 2008 turns its face to Asia. India, Russia, and particularly China have become new challengers for the regional East Asian order. Distinguished analysts from the region, the U.S. and Europe reflect on causes, results and tendencies of recent power shifts. The analyses hint at risks and chances to employ the capability of emerging powers for the sake of regional stability and cooperation. Ironically, Russia’s, India’s and also China’s rises offer fewer risks than opportunities for resolving bilateral and regional conflicts and for mastering global challenges in a regional context. The provided picture is completed by reviewing the two “hot spots” in East Asia, and by a discussion of whether there should be a shaping role for a European actor or mediator in the region. A statistical appendix provides facts and figures for additional reference.

The Editor, Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans J. Giessmann, is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) in Hamburg and Head of the Centre for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS). He is editor of the research book series “Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden” and member of the advisory board of the security-political journal “S+F. Sicherheit und Frieden – Security and Peace”.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2008
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-3378-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-0699-8
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden
Volume: 186
Language: English
Pages: 256
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 8
Hans J. Giessmann
1. East Asia’s Emerging Powers. Conflict, Cooperation and the “Asymmetric Pentagon” of Regional Security in Northeast Asia No access Hans J. Giessmann
Xia Liping
1. The Prospect of East Asian Security: Chinese Perspective No access Xia Liping
2. Russia’s Advances and Setbacks in Northeast Asia under President Putin (1999 – 2007) No access Xia Liping
3. India in Asia: An Emerging Power in a Proto-Region No access Xia Liping
Nicholas Eberstadt
1. Economic Implications of a “Bold Switchover” in DPRK Security Policy Potentialities for Economic Performance in a Still-Socialist North Korea No access Nicholas Eberstadt
2. Taiwan’s Security under the Rise of China No access Nicholas Eberstadt
Bernt Berger, Heather Gilmartin
1. The Quiet Europeans? Appraising Europe’s Commitment to East Asian Security No access Bernt Berger, Heather Gilmartin
Facts and Figures No access Pages 241 - 255
Contributors No access Pages 256 - 256