Human Security: Securing East Asia's Future

265 Pages·2012·2.038 MB·English

by  Benny Teh Cheng Guan (auth.), Benny Teh Cheng Guan (eds.)

Human Security

Benny Teh Cheng Guan
Editor
Human Security
Securing East Asia’s Future
Editor
Benny Teh Cheng Guan
School of Social Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia
[email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-1798-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1799-2
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1799-2
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Contents
Introduction: Human Security Development
and the Future of East Asia ............................................................................ 1
Benny Teh Cheng Guan
Part I The State, the People and Responses to Human Security Concerns
1 Human Insecurities or Liabilities? The Changing Security
Paradigms and the Case of the North Korean Refugees ..................... 17
Jaime Koh
2 Human Insecurity in the People’s Republic of China:
The Vulnerability of Chinese Women to HIV/AIDS ............................ 39
Anna Marie Hayes
3 From National Security to Human Security:
Population Policy Shifts in Vietnam ...................................................... 59
Kathleen A. Tobin
4 Irregular Migration in Thailand: New Possibilities
for Anti-Traffi cking and Development Programs ................................ 75
Jennryn Wetzler
5 Security in Labor Migration in the Philippines: National
Honor, Family Solidarity, and Migrants’ Protection ........................... 95
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Part II Regional Approaches to Human Security and Policy Implications
6 Insecurity Within and Outside the State:
The Regional and Local Dynamics of Environmental
Insecurity in the Mekong ........................................................................ 115
Duncan McDuie-Ra
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7 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
and Climate Change: A Threat to National, Regime,
and Human Security ............................................................................... 135
Alfred Gerstl and Belinda Helmke
8 Depoliticizing Natural Disasters to Enhance Human
Security in a Sovereignty-Based Context:
Lessons from Aceh (2004) to Yangon (2008)......................................... 157
Delphine Alles
9 Human Health Threats and Implications
for Regional Security in Southeast Asia ................................................ 173
James R. Campbell
10 The Proliferation of Trading Agreements
and Implications on Human Livelihood ............................................... 193
Benny Teh Cheng Guan
11 Human Security, Capital Punishment,
and East Asian Democracies .................................................................. 217
Sangmin Bae
12 An Emerging Human Security Threat on Pacifi c
Island States: Analyzing Legal and Political Implications
of Territorial Inundation ........................................................................ 231
Chih-Chieh Chou
Index ................................................................................................................. 249
Contributors

Alfred Gerstl is an Editor-in-chief of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian
Studies (ASEAS). He has been a lecturer for politics and International Relations at
the Universities of Vienna (Austria), Passau (Germany) and Macquarie (Australia).
His research interests include International Relations theories and regional coope-
ration, mainly in East Asia.
Anna Marie Hayes is a Lecturer in International Relations at University of Southern
Queensland located at Toowoomba, Australia and is a member of the Public Memory
Research Centre. Her research interests include Chinese history, gender issues in
China, gendered perspectives of human security and pandemic illnesses, such as
HIV/AIDS, as a source of global human insecurity.
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a Sociologist associated with the Unité de Recherches
Migrations et Société (URMIS) at the Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7. Her
research interests include international migration, the question of gender and the
place of the family and religion in migration phenomena, immigrant entrepreneurship,
and majority-minority relations.
Belinda Helmke is a Political Risk Analyst in the corporate sector. She is also a
Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Peace and Confl ict Studies in University of Sydney
and a member of the ASEAS Editing Board. Her research focuses primarily on
international law and international relations, particularly the use of force by states
and armed confl ict. She is the author of U nder Attack: Challenges to the Rules
Governing the International Use of Force (Ashgate 2010).
Benny Teh Cheng Guan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Apart from human security, his research
interests include the political economy of regionalism and the building of security
communities in East Asia. He is the co-editor of T he Shape of the East Asian Economy
to Come: Lonely Rhetoric or Global Reality (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007).
Chih-Chieh Chou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science
and Graduate Institute of Political Economy at National Cheng Kung University
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