This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the war on terror and the plight of refugees.

Anthony Burke teaches International Relations and Security Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Matt McDonald is Assistant Professor in International Security at the University of Warwick

Introduction: Asia-Pacific security legacies and futures - Matt McDonald & Anthony Burke
PART I: AGENTS
1. Regionalism and security in East Asia - Julie Gilson
2. Emancipation and force: the role(s) of the military in Southeast Asia - Alex J. Bellamy and Bryn Hughes
3. The political economy of security: geopolitics and capitalist development in the Asia-Pacific - Mark Beeson
4. Deconstructing the discourse of epistemic agency: a Singaporean tale of two 'Essentialisms' - See Seng Tan
PART II: STRATEGIES AND CONTEXTS
5. Constructing separatist threats: security and insecurity in Indonesian Aceh and Papua - Edward Aspinal and Richard Chauvel
6. Freedom from fear: conflict, displacement and human security in Burma (Myanmar) - Hazel Lang
7. Australia paranoid: security politics and identity policy - Anthony Burke
8. Harm and emancipation: making environmental security 'critical' in the Asia-Pacific - Lorraine Elliott
9. Seeking security for refugees - Sara Davies
10. Discourses of security in China: towards a critical turn? - Yongjin Zhang
11. Nuclear weapons in the Asia-Pacific: a critical security appraisal - Marianne Hanson
12. US hegemony, the war on terror and security in the Asia-Pacific - Matt McDonald
PART III: FUTURES
13. Dealing with North Korea: conventional and alternative security scenarios - Roland Bleiker
14. Security as enslavement, security as emancipation: gendered legacies and feminist futures in the Asia-Pacific - Katrina Lee Koo
Conclusion: emancipating security in the Asia-Pacific? - Simon Dalby