Synopses & Reviews
This is volume one of a three-volume series arising from a collaborative international project on Human Security and Global Governance. It is based on the work of a number of peace and policy institutes and on the work of an international range of scholars, policymakers and community leaders. This volume focuses on the problems of security in the Asia-Pacific regions and concentrates on, for example, the economic diversity between the richest and poorest countries in the World, the old-style communist dictatorships and new-style market communism, democratic capitalism, authoritarian capitalism and cultural diversity.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-223) and index.
About the Author
Majid Tehranian is affiliated to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.
Table of Contents
World Politics and Regional Formations * Globalism and Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific * Environmental Security and Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific * The APEC Model for Regional Co-operation * The ASEAN Model for Regional Co-operation * Regional Conflicts and Peacemaking in South Asia * Regional Conflicts and Pan-Nationalism in Southwest Asia * Refugees and Regional Security in Southwest Asia * The Lessons of the Philippine Peace Process * Sovereignty and Security for the First Nations * An Asian Philosophy of Peace and Human Security * Teaching Non-Violence to Violent States