This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.

Pauline Eadie is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK, and is author of Poverty and the Critical Security Agenda (2005).

Wyn Rees is Professor of International Security at the University of Nottingham, UK, and is author or editor of 13 books.

1. Introduction, Pauline Eadie and Wyn Rees PART I: Diversification of Tasks and Cross-sectorial Engagement 2. The Military and the Humanitarian Capacities Challenge, Randolph Kent and Charlotte Crabtree 3. Post-conflict Reconstruction: Concepts, Issues and Challenges, Alpaslan Ozerdem PART II: The West 4. The United States and Transformation, Wyn Rees 5. Western European Armed Forces and the Modernisation Agenda, David J. Galbreath 6. Military Transformation in Russia, Keir Giles PART III: Asia 7. Great Power Identity, Security Imaginary and Military Transformation in China, Rex Li 8. Japan's Military Transformation, Christopher W. Hughes 9. Indian Military Transformation in the Twenty-First Century, Rajat Ganguly 10. Smart Power, Military Transformation and the United States-Philippine Joint Balikatan Exercises, Pauline Eadie 11. Conclusion, Pauline Eadie and Wyn Rees