1st Edition

Status and Security in Southeast Asian State Systems

By Nicholas Tarling Copyright 2013
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region in many areas, open to outside influence in many fields, but not without dynamics of its own,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Traditional hierarchy 3. Conquests and contracts 4. European empires 5. The Co-Prosperity Sphere 6. Independence 7. Regionalism

Biography

Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Southeast Asia. His publications include Southeast Asia and the Great Powers (Routledge, 2010), Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos (2011), and New Zealand the Making of an Asia-Pacific Society (2011).