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A new era for Chinese military logistics 中国军队后勤的新时代
Asian Security Pub Date : 2021-02-11 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2021.1880391
Joel Wuthnow
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引用次数: 3
Barracks and barricades: how internal security threats affect foreign basing access in the Philippines 兵营和路障:内部安全威胁如何影响外国在菲律宾的军事基地
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1862087
J. W. Brown, Dean C. Dulay
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引用次数: 0
Unlikely allies? Australia, Indonesia and the strategic cultures of middle powers 不太可能的盟友吗?澳大利亚,印度尼西亚和中等强国的战略文化
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-11-29 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1846525
M. Beeson, A. Bloomfield, Wahyu Wicaksana
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引用次数: 5
Leveraging the “String of Pearls” for strategic gains? An assessment of the Maritime Silk Road Initiative’s (MSRI) economic/security nexus in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) 利用“珍珠链”获取战略利益?海上丝绸之路倡议(MSRI)在印度洋地区(IOR)的经济/安全关系评估
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-11-16 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1844664
Benjamin Barton
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引用次数: 0
“Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump “让同盟更加强大”:(错误)在特朗普时代管理美日关系
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1838486
P. O'Shea, S. Maslow
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引用次数: 8
The Mass Line approach to countering violent extremism in China: the road from propaganda to hearts and minds 反对中国暴力极端主义的群众路线:从宣传到心灵的道路
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-10-12 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1825379
E. Newman, Chi Zhang
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引用次数: 0
Alliances in Chinese international relations: are they ending or rejuvenating? 中国国际关系中的联盟:是终结还是复兴?
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2020.1825380
Zhengrui Han, M. Papa
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引用次数: 0
The securitization of cyberspace governance in Singapore 新加坡网络空间治理的证券化
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2019.1687444
Syed Mohammed Ad’ha Aljunied
{"title":"The securitization of cyberspace governance in Singapore","authors":"Syed Mohammed Ad’ha Aljunied","doi":"10.1080/14799855.2019.1687444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2019.1687444","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing from securitization theory and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this article examines how the Singaporean government has “securitized” cyberspace governance. It contributes value-add to the existing literature on securitization theory by evaluating the specific backgrounds and preexisting beliefs that securitizing actors bring with them to the securitization process. Taking the case of Singapore, this paper focuses on the military elites turned civilian politicans and policymakers that have been tasked with cyberspace governance. A discourse analysis shows how terminologies describing cyberspace as an “existential” issue and key personnel appointments with significant military backgrounds reflect the prevalance of military elites, terminologies, strategies that have become embedded within domestic cybersecurity governance structures. The use of military-style concepts such as “digital ranges” and “war games” in Singapore mirrors global financial industry trends where military-derived terminology has become widespread in preparing for cyber-attacks on critical information infrastructure. Two key focus areas of cyberspace governance are evaluated: online content regulation of Internet and social media networks, and legislation to protect critical information infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing a range of concerns raised by the target “audience” of securitization processes, such as civil society and information infrastructure providers.","PeriodicalId":35162,"journal":{"name":"Asian Security","volume":"1 1","pages":"343 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86524742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Embattled authoritarians: continuity and collapse in Central and Southwest Asia 四面楚歌的独裁者:中亚和西南亚的延续和崩溃
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2019.1706490
Charles J. Sullivan
{"title":"Embattled authoritarians: continuity and collapse in Central and Southwest Asia","authors":"Charles J. Sullivan","doi":"10.1080/14799855.2019.1706490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2019.1706490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why are some authoritarian leaders able to stave off violent challengers to their rule while others falter? This article analyzes several case studies involving a series of nondemocratic governments and violent non-state actors waging war and posits that different combinations of variables lead to dissimilar outcomes (ranging from “civil war/insurgency”, “regime implosion” or “foreign-based overthrow”, “negotiated peace”, to “strategic advance and retreat”). Accordingly, “embattled authoritarians” require a high level of “political-military aid” over time from a supportive foreign power to effectively combat “violent non-state challengers”. However, it is difficult for such governments to completely escape from “embattled” status, particularly if a supportive foreign power does not exert influence to set parameters for peace between the warring parties and the level of international interference (i.e. political-military aid abetting violent non-state challengers courtesy of other foreign powers) does not recede over time. This article concludes with a forecast on Afghanistan and Tajikistan’s respective futures and discusses how the onset of political instability within the former may serve to destabilize the political situation in the latter.","PeriodicalId":35162,"journal":{"name":"Asian Security","volume":"8 1","pages":"363 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74453995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
Political Parties, Australia and the U.S. Alliance: 1976-2016 政党、澳大利亚和美国联盟:1976-2016
Asian Security Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2019.1681403
Michael D. Cohen
{"title":"Political Parties, Australia and the U.S. Alliance: 1976-2016","authors":"Michael D. Cohen","doi":"10.1080/14799855.2019.1681403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2019.1681403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What causes variation in the foreign policies of U.S. allies regarding their desired U.S. military role in their region and their troop commitments to U.S. military interventions? This paper addresses this question through documenting and explaining the sources of variation in Australia’s foreign policies regarding these issues over four decades. Treating the two major political parties in Australia and their respective leaders who self-select into them as endogenous, the paper argues that Australian foreign policy, whilst always supportive of the U.S. alliance, has systematically varied. This variation has correlated with the political party in power while the late Cold War and post-Cold War balances of power remained constant. While the Labor party has only been willing to send combat troops to large U.S. military interventions when the latter have a supporting United Nations Security Council Resolution, the conservative Liberal party has been willing to military intervene without this multilateral support. The Labor party, unlike the Liberal party, has also frequently proposed the formation and consolidation of multilateral regional institutions. These preferences render the U.S. to have been necessary for the Labor Party but sufficient for the Liberal party. Future Sino-U.S. armed conflict would provide a harder test of these hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":35162,"journal":{"name":"Asian Security","volume":"185 1","pages":"323 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75400461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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