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Names: Ganguly, Sumit, editor. | Scobell, Andrew, editor. | Liow, Joseph
Chinyong, 1972 editor.
Title: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies / edited by Sumit
Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Chinyong Liow.
Description: Second edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017027830 | ISBN 9781138210295 (Hardback) |
ISBN 9781315455655 (Ebook)
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Rajesh Basrur is Professor of International Relations at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has authored five books, including (with Kate Sullivan De Estrada) Rising India: Status and Power (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming). South Asias Cold War (Routledge, 2008) and Minimum Deterrence and Indias Nuclear Security (Stanford University Press, 2006). He has also edited nine books, including (with Bharat Gopalaswamy) Indias Military Modernization: Strategic Technologies and Weapons Systems (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Challenges to Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2009). His work focuses on South Asian security, global nuclear politics and international relations theory.
Bruce E. Bechtol Jr is Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University and a retired Marine. He was an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1997 until 2003, including serving as senior analyst for Northeast Asia in the Intelligence Directorate (J2) on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He has published six books, including North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Stephen Blank is an internationally recognized expert on Russian foreign and defense policies and international relations and a leading expert on European and Asian security. Since 2013 he has been a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, www.afpc.org. From 19892013 he was Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Blanks M.A. and Ph.D. are in Russian History from the University of Chicago.
Hoo Tiang Boon is Assistant Professor, China Programme and Coordinator of the M.Sc. (Asian Studies) Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford. His new book is Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi , (ed.) (New York & London: Rout-ledge, 2017). He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Security, Journal of Contemporary China , St Antonys International Review , and International Journal of China Studies .
Mely Caballero-Anthony is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific, politics and international relations in ASEAN, non-traditional security as well as human security. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on a broad range of security issues in the Asia-Pacific. Among her latest publications is, An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security (SAGE, 2016).
David Capie is Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research focuses on traditional and non-traditional security issues in the Asia-Pacific, defense diplomacy and New Zealand foreign and defense policy. He is a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Group.
Ming-chin Monique Chu is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton. She earned her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge. Shes the author of The East Asian Computer Chip War (2013) and the co-editor of Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of China (2014). Her current research examines the phenomena of problematic sovereignty on Chinas periphery.
Daniel Wei Boon Chua is Assistant Professor in the Military Studies Programme and Deputy Head of Graduate Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on US relations with Southeast Asia and his latest book is US-Singapore Relations, 19651975: Strategic Non-alignment in the Cold War (National University of Singapore Press, 2017).
Renaud Egreteau is a political scientist whose research focuses on democratization, civil-military relations and the international politics of South and Southeast Asia. He has taught at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Hong Kong, and held fellowships from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He was a recipient of a 20152016 scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and recently authored Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar (Oxford University Press and Hurst, 2016).
Andrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy in, and a core founding member of, the US Naval War College (NWC)s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He helped to establish CMSI and to stand it up officially in 2006, and has subsequently played an integral role in its development. Since 2008 Erickson has been an Associate in Research at Harvard Universitys John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He runs the research website .
C. Christine Fair is a Provosts Distinguished Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown Universitys Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research focuses on political and military affairs in South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Her most recent book is Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Armys Way of War (Oxford University Press). Additionally, she has as authored, co-authored and co-edited several books, including Pakistans Enduring Challenges (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (Oxford University Press, 2014); Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh (Routledge, 2010); Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (USIP, 2008), and The Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Globe Pequot, 2008), among others. Her current book project is Lashkar-e-Taiba: In its Own Words .
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