1st Edition

Asia-Pacific Defense and Security Outlook Arming the Region in the Era of Big Power Competition

Edited By Kogila Balakrishnan, Zsolt Lazar Copyright 2023
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-Pacific region. There are only a very few regions in the world which have advanced so fast both economically and technologically as the Asia-Pacific in the past few decades. Probably this is one of the reasons why several countries in the region have... Read more

Introduction: Asia-Pacific defense and security outlook

Zsolt Lazar and Kogila Balakrishnan

1. The security environment in the Asia-Pacific: the context for arming

Richard A. Bitzinger

2. The Politicisation of Archaeology in Border Demarcation Conflict in the Asia Pacific Region

Luke Hally

3. The Philippine defence-development-disaster security paradigm

Ava Avila and Ron Matthews

4. Dual-neutrality for the Koreas: a two-pronged approach toward reunification

Pascal Lottaz and Heinz Gärtner

5. Evaluating civil-military relationship for effective procurement decision-making: the case of two fighter jet procurements of the Republic of Korea

Haneol Lee

6. The challenges in buyer-supplier relationship for technological absorption capability in international defence acquisition: the case of Southeast Asia

Kogila Balakrishnan and Zsolt Lazar

7. Made in India: an aspiring brand in global arms bazaar

Laxman Kumar Behera

8. Imagining maritime conflict in the Indo-Pacific: can analogies substitute for strategy?

James J. Wirtz

Biography

Kogila Balakrishnan is Director for Client and Business Development (East Asia) at WMG, University of Warwick; Adjunct Professor at the Malaysian National Defence University; Former Under Secretary of the Department for Defence Industry, Ministry of Defence, Malaysia. She obtained her PhD in the field of Technology Policy from the Cranfield University, UK.

Zsolt Lazar studied aviation-mechanics and completed an internship at a military airbase, holds a ‘Managing in a Global Context’ Master’s degree from the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, and an International Business Relations degree jointly from the Hungarian International Business School and Oxford Brookes University in the UK.