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Non-traditional security in Asia : dilemmas in securitisation / edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers, and Amitav Acharya

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot UK : Ashgate, 2006Description: xii, 257 pISBN:
  • 0754647013 (hbk) :
Subject(s): Summary: The book presents and analyzes a variety of non-traditional security problems in SE Asia. Among them are Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia; piracy; small arms and drug trafficking in Indonesia; infectious diseases including AIDS; poverty in Indonesia; China in the Mekong river basin. The aim of the book is to understand the "complex processes of (1) how and why [non-traditional security] issues emerge, and (2) how they are defined and responded to by governments and non-state actors." The case studies draw on the concepts of securitization and desecuritization put forward by the Copenhagen School (adapted from preface).
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The book presents and analyzes a variety of non-traditional security problems in SE Asia. Among them are Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia; piracy; small arms and drug trafficking in Indonesia; infectious diseases including AIDS; poverty in Indonesia; China in the Mekong river basin. The aim of the book is to understand the "complex processes of (1) how and why [non-traditional security] issues emerge, and (2) how they are defined and responded to by governments and non-state actors." The case studies draw on the concepts of securitization and desecuritization put forward by the Copenhagen School (adapted from preface).

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