Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Setting the context -- Integrating theory and Asian security: precedents -- Reconciling the 'global-regional nexus' -- The way forward -- Developing the concept -- Structural and normative outlooks -- The security nexus and key issue-areas -- Conclusion: a new policy agenda? -- Part I -- 2 Grappling with an elusive concept -- The 'global' and the 'regional': reconciling the levels of analysis problem -- The regionalist perspective and its taxonomy -- Asia seen as a regional supercomplex -- Invoking a dynamic 'centre of gravity' perspective on the global-regional nexus -- Regions and regionalism -- The 'systemic' versus the 'global' -- The impact of a global hegemonic power on the global-regional nexus -- The 'centre of gravity': two distinctive perspectives on the global-regional nexus -- Conclusion -- 3 Asia-Pacific institutions -- The causes of institutional sclerosis -- New powers and old institutions -- Supplementing the San Francisco system -- The rise of East Asian regionalism -- Conclusion: Asia-Pacific institutions and great power accommodation -- 4 The United States: regional strategies and global commitments -- The long 1990s and US foreign policy -- The 1990s and US regional priorities -- 11 September and US foreign policy -- 11 September and US regional priorities -- The choices ahead: a new global strategy? -- 5 A rising China and American perturbations -- China shakes the world -- China challenges America -- Global elements in regional competition -- Conclusion -- Part II -- 6 Hegemony, hierarchy and order -- Introduction -- The regional-global security nexus -- US hegemony and the East Asian hierarchy -- Hegemony, 1945-1970 -- Layered regional hierarchy, 1970-1990.

Reconstituting hierarchical order, 1990 onwards -- Regional-global dynamics and the East Asian security order -- Conclusion -- 7 Democracy and security in East Asia -- Security: comparing democracy and authoritarianism -- Democracy and classic security concerns -- Cross-national conflict: sovereignty and territoriality -- Subnational conflict: terrorism, separatism and insurgency -- Democracy and non-traditional issues -- Promoting economic growth and equality -- Managing communal rivalries -- Human rights violations -- Conclusions -- 8 Security community-building in the Asia-Pacific -- Security communities -- Japan and the United States: a dyadic security community? -- An Asia-Pacific security community: possibility or pipe dream? -- Conclusion -- 9 Human security and global governance -- Human security and its Asia-Pacific context -- The Japanese dimension -- Human security and institution-building -- The way forward -- 10 The economics-security nexus in the Asia-Pacific region -- Economics and security I: liberal approaches -- Production networks and intra-industry trade -- Interdependence beyond trade -- New institutional configurations -- Economics and security II: realist propositions -- Economics and security in the Asia-Pacific region -- The evolution of production networks and Chinas integration into the global economy -- The growing sophistication of China's manufactured exports -- Domestic coalitions -- The proliferation of preferential trade agreements -- Foreign direct investment -- Monetary interdependence -- The realist alternative: states in command? -- Conclusion -- Part III -- 11 Problematising 'linkages' between Southeast Asian and international terrorism -- Problematising 'linkages' -- Framing international-regional-nation-state linkages -- The al-Qaeda-Southeast Asia nexus -- Jemaah Islamiyah-al-Qaeda relations -- Conclusion.

12 Nuclear weapons: Asian case studies and global ramifications -- Introduction -- Nuclear weapons in South Asia -- Nuclear weapons programmes and modernisation in South Asia -- Nuclear modernisation in South Asia and its effects on global balances -- Effect on global non-proliferation norms -- The nuclear crisis in North Korea -- North Korean nuclear and missile capabilities -- Responding to the North Korean nuclear crisis: regional and global impact -- Conclusion -- 13 Maritime security: regional concerns and global implications -- Introduction -- Maritime strategic overview -- Changing concepts and developments -- Maritime security -- 'New' threats -- Proliferation Security Initiative -- ReCAAP -- Regional concerns -- Naval developments -- Energy security: future maritime scenarios -- Maritime security regimes -- UNCLOS -- Other agreements -- Global ramifications -- Considerations -- A regional-global nexus? -- Conclusions -- 14 Thinking globally and acting regionally: securitising energy and environment -- From regional to global approaches: trading MEA effectiveness for consensus? -- North, South, East and West: regional complexities of the Asia-Pacific -- Hazardous waste and recycling bans: trade differentiation in Asia and Europe -- APP 'minilateralism' versus Kyoto's globalism -- APP and energy security in the Asia-Pacific -- Conclusion -- 15 Regional health and global security: the Asian cradle of pandemic influenza -- Pandemic influenza as a security challenge -- The regional-global security nexus -- Health systems in East Asia -- International assistance -- Vaccines -- Conclusion -- Part IV -- 16 The new transregional security politics of the Asia-Pacific -- Introduction -- Locating the global-regional nexus in Asian security -- Power -- Institutions -- Ideas and norms -- Interdependence -- Transnational perils.

Asian foundations of global order -- References -- Index.