The architecture of security in the Asia-Pacific

145 Pages·2009·0.549 MB·English

by  Huisken, Ronald

The Architecture of Security
in the Asia-Pacific

The Architecture of Security
in the Asia-Pacific
EDITED BY RON HUISKEN
Published by ANU E Press
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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Title: The architecture of security in the Asia-Pacific / editor Ron Huisken.
ISBN: 9781921666025 (pbk.) 9781921666032 (pdf.)
Subjects: National security--Asia--Congresses.
National security--Pacific Area--Congresses.
Other Authors/Contributors:
Huisken, R. H. (Ronald Herman), 1946-
Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies.
Dewey Number: 355.33095
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Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Acronyms and Abbreviations xi
List of Tables xiii
1. Introduction 1
Ron Huisken
2. Developing East Asia’s Security Architecture: An Australian 11
perspective on ASEAN processes
Brendan Taylor
3. The ASEAN Power 21
Zhai Kun
4. The SCO’s Success in Security Architecture 33
Pan Guang
5. Shifting Tides: China and North Korea 45
Zhu Feng
6. ‘The Six-Party Talks Process: Towards an Asian Concert?’ 59
Robert Ayson
7. The US Role in the Future Security Architecture for East Asia 67
Ron Huisken
8. The Role of the United States in the Future Security Architecture 85
for East Asia—from the Perspective of China-US Military-to-Military
Interaction
Lu Dehong
9. Potential Strategic Risks in China-US Relations 101
Yuan Peng
10. Changes in China-Japan Relations and East Asian Security 111
Zhang Tuosheng
Index 121

Contributors
Robert Ayson directs The Australian National University’s Graduate Studies
in Strategy and Defence program and is a Fellow in the Strategic and Defence
Studies Centre. He has taught in New Zealand universities and served as adviser
to the New Zealand parliamentary select committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence
and Trade. The author of Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age, Frank Cass,
London and New York, 2004, his research interests include strategic concepts,
Asia-Pacific stability, and Australia-New Zealand defence issues.
Ron Huisken is senior fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The
Australian National University. He has held a variety of research and teaching
positions in Australia and overseas, together with assignments in the United
Nations and the Australian Public Service. He spent a number of years with the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute working particularly on military
expenditures, naval forces and nuclear arms control. At the UN Department of
Disarmament Affairs, he played a key role in producing a landmark study on
the relationships between disarmament and development. In government in
Australia, he worked predominantly on arms control issues with the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade and on alliance management questions with the
Department of Defence. He also served as deputy Chief of Mission in the
Australian embassy in Bonn in 1990–94. He returned to academia in 2001 where
his research interests include East Asian security, alliance politics, and
proliferation. His publications include (with F. Barnaby) Arms Uncontrolled; The
Origin of the Strategic Cruise Missile; and The Road to War on Iraq.
Lu Dehong is deputy director of the research department at the China Foundation
for International and Strategic Studies. His main research areas include defence
policy and strategic planning. He received his PhD from the National Defense
University, PLA. Before demobilisation from the army, he served as staff officer
in the China Ministry of National Defense.
Pan Guang is the director and professor of the Shanghai Center for International
Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences, director of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Studies
Center in Shanghai, dean of the Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and
vice chairman of Chinese Society of Middle East Studies. He is also the
International Council Member of Asia Society in USA, Senior Advisor of the
China-Eurasia Forum in USA, an advisory board member of the Asia Europe
Journal (by ASEF) in Singapore and senior advisor on anti-terror affairs to the
Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Public Security of PRC. His awards
include the James Friend Annual Memorial Award for Sino-Jewish Studies (1993),
the Special Award for Research on Canadian Jews from China (1996), and the
Sankt Peterburg-300 Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations, which
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was awarded in 2004 by then Russia President Vladimir Putin. In 2006 he
received the Austria Holocaust Memorial Award. In 2005 he was nominated by
then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to be a member of the High-Level Group
for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. He has undertaken research and lectured
widely in North America, East Asia, Russia, Centre Asia, Europe, the Middle
East and Australia. He has published such works as The Jews in China and From
Silk Road to Asem: 2000 Years of Asia-Europe Relations. Other topics include the
2003 US War on Iraq, relations between China, Central Asia, and Russia; SCO
and China’s role in the war on terrorism; contemporary international crises;
China’s success in the Middle East; the anti-terrorism strategy and the role in
the war on terror of China; Islam and Confucianism and the development of
Islam in China; ethnic and religious conflicts in the Pacific Rim area; and China
and post-Soviet Central Asia.
Brendan Taylor is a lecturer in the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence
program at the Strategic Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National
University. Dr Taylor is the course coordinator for the program elective ‘The
US and East Asian Security’. His research interests include Northeast Asian
security, American foreign policy, economic statecraft, and alliance politics. He
lectures to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate classes at The Australian
National University—where he coordinates Masters-level courses on ‘Asia-Pacific
security’ and ‘The US and East Asian security’—as well as to various Australian
Defence Colleges and public fora. He is a member of the Australian Committee
of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. His publications have
appeared in such leading international journals as Asian Security, Comparative
Strategy, and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He also co-authored
(with D. Ball and A. Milner) Mapping Track II Institutions in New Zealand,
Australia and the Asian Region, An Independent Study Submitted to the Asia New
Zealand Foundation in March 2005.
Yuan Peng is currently director of the Institute of American Studies, China
Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). His research focuses
on US foreign policy, China-US relations, cross-Strait relations, and East
Asian-Pacific Security Studies. He served as a senior fellow of the CNAPS Program
(Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies) at the Brookings Institution from
September 2003 to June 2004, and visiting scholar in the Senior Fellow Program
at the Atlantic Council of the United States form December 1999 to June 2000.
His latest books are American Think-Tanks and Their Attitudes Towards China
(editor-in-chief, 2003) and China-U.S. Relations: A Strategic Analysis (co-editor,
2005). He has also published articles in Chinese newspapers such as People’s
Daily, China Daily, and Global Times.
Zhai Kun is the director of Southeast Asian and the Oceanian Studies of China
Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. His areas of expertise include
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Southeast Asia, Oceania, East Asian cooperation and Asia-Europe cooperation.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Zhai Kun is a columnist and an adviser to
China Central Television.
Zhang Tuosheng is a senior fellow, chairman of the academic assessment
committee, and director of the Department of Research at the China Foundation
for International and Strategic Studies. During the early 1990s, he served as the
deputy defence attaché at the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom. His main
research interests are Sino-US relations, Sino-Japan relations, Asia-Pacific
security, and Chinese foreign policy.
Zhu Feng is a professor in the School of International Studies and director of
the International Security Program at Peking University. He is a leading Chinese
security expert and senior research fellow of the Center for Peace and
Development of China. He writes extensively on international security in East
Asia, power relations and China-US-Japan security ties.
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