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Human Security, 2012
Securing East Asia's Future
Coordinator: Teh Cheng Guan Benny
Language: EnglishKeywords
Anti-trafficking; Cross-border human activities; Economic liberalization; Economic wealth; Human rights; Human security in East Asia; Income disparities; Labor migration; Non-traditional security and migration; North Korean refugees; Rapid economic growth and development; Reduced state control; Relationship between people; state and region; Safety and well-being; Vulnerability of Chinese women to HIV/AIDS
Publication date: 02-2014
258 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2012
258 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics. Yet, inter-state relations have continued to dominate security concerns in East Asia. This has, unfortunately, eluded the broader understanding of issues and challenges facing the peoples of East Asia.
Home to nations with rapid economic growth and development, East Asia is at the core of what some individuals have termed as the coming Asian Century. Years of economic liberalization and exposure to globalization have permitted the region to achieve high levels of interconnectedness from within and without in unprecedented ways. This has certainly reduced state control and opened up spaces for cross-border human activities. While economic wealth have increased substantially over the years, it has also brought about bigger income disparities, unsustainable safety nets and a surge in social problems from health issues to migratory concerns that threaten the safety and well-being of individuals.
Human Security: Securing East Asia?s Future timely examines the fundamental issues causing human insecurities and evaluates the extent of which human security plays a role at the state and regional levels. Covering the different areas of threats to humans and applying case study materials, this volume provides an intellectual mix of perspectives that captures the relationship between people, state and region. This book will be of interest to those studying traditional and non-traditional security/threats, Asian human development and critical policy analysis.
Provides an intellectual mix of interdisciplinary approaches to human security in East Asia
Provides a top-down and bottom-up perspectives, covering the various threat areas of human security
Empirical based approaches to help readers relate conceptual understanding of human security to issues and challenges observed in the region
Covers both state and regional levels in explaining human security concerns