Nuclear Power and Energy Security
in Asia
The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all brought a renewed interest in nuclear energy. Nuclear power, however, is itself controversial, because of its costs, its environmental effects and the security risks it poses. This book discusses these critical issues surrounding nuclear power in relation to Asia. It discusses also the politics of nuclear power and the activities of civil society organisations concerned about nuclear issues. Throughout the book the perspectives are included of both proponents and opponents of nuclear power on the key controversial issues.
Rajesh Basrur is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Koh Swee Lean Collin is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Routledge security in Asia Pacific series
Series Editors:
Leszek Buszynski
International University of Japan
and
William Tow
Australian National University
Security issues have become more prominent in the Asia Pacific region because of the presence of global players, rising great powers, and confident middle powers, which intersect in complicated ways. This series puts forward important new work on key security issues in the region. It embraces the roles of the major actors, their defense policies and postures and their security interaction over the key issues of the region. It includes coverage of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, the Koreas, as well as the middle powers of ASEAN and South Asia. It also covers issues relating to environmental and economic security as well as transnational actors and regional groupings.
1 Bush and Asia
Americas evolving relations with East Asia
Edited by Mark Beeson
2 Japan, Australia and Asia- Pacific Security
Edited by Brad Williams and Andrew Newman
3 Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia
The impact of domestic forces
Edited by Edward Friedman and Sung Chull Kim
4 Energy Security in Asia
Edited by Michael Wesley
5 Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power
Friendships in flux?
Edited by Brendan Taylor
6 Securing Southeast Asia
The politics of security sector reform
Mark Beeson and Alex J. Bellamy
7 Pakistans Nuclear Weapons
Bhumitra Chakma
8 Human Security in East Asia
Challenges for collaborative action
Edited by Sorpong Peou
9 Security and International Politics in the South China Sea
Towards a co- operative management regime
Edited by Sam Bateman & Ralf Emmers
10 Japans Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia
Seeking a more active political role
Lam Peng Er
11 Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Ralf Emmers
12 North Koreas Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 19662008
Narushige Michishita
13 Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast Asia
Mely Caballero-Anthony
14 American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific
Brendan Taylor
15 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between rising naval powers
Edited by Sam Bateman and Joshua Ho
16 Human Security in Southeast Asia
Yukiko Nishikawa
17 ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia
Ralf Emmers
18 India as an Asia Pacific Power
David Brewster
19 ASEAN Regionalism
Cooperation, values and institutionalisation
Christopher B. Roberts
20 Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia
Edited by Rajesh Basrur and Koh Swee Lean Collin
21 Maritime Challenges and Priorities in Asia
Implications for regional security
Edited by Joshua Ho and Sam Bateman
Nuclear Power and Energy
Security in Asia
Edited by Rajesh Basrur and
Koh Swee Lean Collin
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Nuclear power and energy security in Asia/editors, Rajesh Basrur, Koh Swee Lean Collin.
p. cm. (Routledge security in Asia Pacific series; 20)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Nuclear industryAsia. 2. Energy securityAsia. I. Basrur, Rajesh M.
II. Koh, Swee Lean Collin, 1982 III. Series: Routledge security in
Asia Pacific series; 20.
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Contributors
Lina Alexandra has been a researcher in the Department of International Relations, CSIS Jakarta, since 2002. She is also a guest lecturer in the Postgraduate School of Diplomacy, Paramadina University, Jakarta. She is one of contributors to the book ASEANs Quest for A Full-fledged Community (CSIS, 2007) and wrote various opinions and journal articles related to issues such as conflict resolution and energy security in ASEAN. As a researcher, she has been involved in several research projects, among them the project on Safety of Nuclear Energy in Southeast Asia (20082010) and Mainstreaming Responsibility to Protect in Indonesia (supported by the Australian R2P Fund). Apart to these research activities, she has also engaged in organizing special meetings on human rights between the civil society in Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Secretary-General since 2009. She received a Bachelor in Social Sciences from University of Indonesia and a Master of International Studies specializing in Peace and Conflict Resolution from University of Queensland, Australia.
