| Southeast Asia: Patterns of security cooperation |
| Thursday, 30 September 2010 |
| Strategically, Southeast Asia sits at the intersection of the wider world and Australia’s local neighbourhood; what happens there matters to Australia. But the broader Asian security environment is in flux, and an era of strategic quiescence in Southeast Asia may be drawing to a close. Security trends there are increasingly being shaped by a set of global and broader Asian concerns as well as local ones. In consequence, traditional patterns of strategic influence and cooperation are shifting in Southeast Asia. In this paper, Professor Carl Thayer from the Australian Defence Force Academy ‘unpacks’ four patterns of strategic influence in the region, assessing the interactions between them and what they mean for Australian strategic interests. Those patterns increasingly overlay in new and complex ways, ways that might undermine the stable, consultative Southeast Asia with which we have become so familiar. |
| Order Hardcopy ($15.00) |
| View HTML |
Carlyle A Thayer
Carlyle A Thayer is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University College, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has spent his entire career teaching in a military environment, first in the Faculty of Military Studies at The Royal Military College, Duntroon, (1979–85) and then at the Australian Defence Force Academy (1985–present). He was given leave ‘in the national interest’ to take up a senior post at the Asia–Pacific Center for Security Studies, US Pacific Command, Hawaii (1999–2001). On return to Australia he was seconded to Deakin University as the on-site academic coordinator at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College (2002–04). After that he was appointed coordinator for the Regional Studies (Security) course at the Australian Command and Staff College (2006–07 and 2010). He was honoured by appointment as the C. V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and the Inaugural Frances M. and Stephen H. Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Center of International Studies at Ohio University in 2008. In January 2011 he will become an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. Professor Thayer is the author of over 400 publications including, most recently, Vietnam People’s Army: development and modernization (2009).
Important disclaimer
This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in relation to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering any form of professional or other advice or services. No person should rely on the contents of this publication without first obtaining advice from a qualified professional person.
© The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Limited 2010
This publication is subject to copyright. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of it may in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying, recording or otherwise) be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without prior written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.
First published September 2010
Published in Australia by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
ASPI
Level 2, Arts House
40 Macquarie Street
Barton ACT 2600
Australia
Tel + 61 2 6270 5100
Fax + 61 2 6273 9566
Email enquiries@aspi.org.au
Web www.aspi.org.au
Thayer, Carlyle A.
Southeast Asia: patterns of security cooperation / Carlyle A. Thayer.
ISBN: 9781921302565 (html)
Includes bibliographical references.
Security, international—Southeast Asia.
Asian cooperation.
Southeast Asia—Defenses.
355.0310959
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment