1st Edition

Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

By Shang-Su Wu Copyright 2024
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics, economies, geography and other factors. Bounded by the Pacific and Indian Oceans and located between China and India is the setting for the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation in Southeast Asian countries. Differing from previous research focused on... Read more

Contents

List of tables

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Indonesia

Chapter 3 Malaysia

Chapter 4 Myanmar

Chapter 5 The Philippines

Chapter 6 Singapore

Chapter 7 Thailand

Chapter 8 Vietnam

Chapter 9 Brunei, Cambodia, and Laos

Chapter 10 Conclusion: Trends, Geopolitics and Challenges

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Shang-Su Wu is assistant professor at the Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He was a research fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. His research fields are defence in East and Southeast Asia, and railways of international relations.