{"product_id":"international-security-in-the-asia-pacific-transcending-asean-towards-transitional-polycentrism-9783319607610","title":"International Security in the Asia-Pacific: Transcending ASEAN Towards Transitional Polycentrism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan Chong\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically awkward as a description of the security of states and their populations; it implies the loosening of state control and the emergence of newly asserted authority by mixed constellations of intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. It implies a competition of agendas: threats to the integrity of borders and human security threats such as natural disasters, airliner crashes, and displacement by man-made pollution and food scarcity. Conversely, polycentrism could also imply a return to a more neo-realist oriented international order where great powers ignore ASEAN and steer regional order according to their perceived interests and relative military superiority. This book embraces these contradictory trends as a foundation of analysis and accepts that disorder can also be re-described fromthe perspective of studied detachment as polycentric order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45277089562775,"sku":"9783319607610","price":13221.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783319607610.webp?v=1769287456","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/international-security-in-the-asia-pacific-transcending-asean-towards-transitional-polycentrism-9783319607610","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}