PUBLICATION SERIES DETAIL
Studies in Asian Security
The Studies in Asian Security book series, published by Stanford University Press and sponsored by the East-West Center, promotes analysis, understanding, and explanation of the dynamics of domestic, transnational, and international security challenges in Asia. The peer-reviewed publications in the Series analyze contemporary security issues and problems to clarify debates in the scholarly community, provide new insights and perspectives, and identify new research and policy directions. Security is defined broadly to include the traditional political and military dimensions as well as nontraditional dimensions that affect the survival and well being of political communities. Asia, too, is defined broadly to include Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia.
Designed to encourage original and rigorous scholarship, books in the Studies in Asian Security series seek to engage scholars, educators, and practitioners. Wide-ranging in scope and method, the Series is receptive to all paradigms, programs, and traditions, and to an extensive array of methodologies now employed in the social sciences. Each publication in the Series will comprise a 200 to 350 printed page (80,000 to 140,000 words or 530,000 to 927,500 characters and spaces) research monograph on a single topic.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PUBLISHING IN THE SERIES
- Publication in a highly reputed university press in the first theoretically oriented series focused on Asian security.
- Input from a strong Series editorial committee comprising members with expertise both in theory and Asian security.
- Simultaneous publication in cloth and paperback.
- Publication of an Asian edition for most books in the Series. The National University of Singapore Press will publish Asian editions of selected books in the Series on Northeast and Southeast Asia. In addition, SUP will always attempt to sell South Asian reprint rights, for books focused specifically on that region, to established publishers in that territory.
- A subsidy for each book to cover the cost of index preparation up to a maximum of US$1,000.
- Promotion of books in the Series by Stanford University Press and the East-West Center.
Submission guidelines are available for prospective authors. The guidelines are also available as a PDF download.
SERIES AVAILABILITY
The publications in the Studies in Asian Security series are available through Stanford University Press and its distributing agents including: www.sup.org, www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE AND INTERNATIONAL BOARD MEMBERS
Chief EditorMuthiah Alagappa, East-West Center |
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Series EditorsAmitav Acharya, University of Bristol |
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International BoardRajesh M. Basrur, Nanyang Technological University |
| Brian L. Job, University of British Columbia |
2008
Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
by Andrew L. Oros
2008
"This thoughtful, carefully argued study challenges the many Chicken Littles who warn that Japan is ready to break free of its post-war constraints."
--Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
"Andrew Oros has written an important book on one of the seminal questions in East Asian affairs. Normalizing Japan marshals impressive evidence to make careful and thoughtful arguments about the role of identity and history in Japanese national security decision making."--G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University
2007
Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity
by Alan M. Wachman
2007
"Wachman's exemplary narrative demonstrates Taiwan's increasing geostrategic importance to Chinese regimes. This book will change the way Chinese strategy is viewed and will do much to integrate studies of the China-Taiwan contest with broader questions of Chinese military-political strategy in East Asia."
--William C. Kirby, Harvard University
"The cleverness of this highly readable and convincingly argued volume is its simplicity. It is as if Wachman is intent on stripping away some of the more cumbersome theorizing and returning to some basics of international relations... Placing into historical context contemporary Chinese thinking on sea power, expansionist aims and the centrality of Taiwan to these ambitions [Why Taiwan] is highly instructive and presents some ominous implications for those interested in peace in the Taiwan Strait... This volume offers a thought-provoking contribution to the study of the direction of China's ambitions and the attendant dangers for Taiwan."
--Taiwan Review
Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations, and Global Security
by Ann Kent
2007
"Kent has written a superb historical chronology of China's increasing entanglement with international organizations. Beyond Compliance will be an invaluable resource for Asian security specialists and students of Chinese foreign policy."
--Jeffrey T. Checkel, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
"Kent looks at the role international organizations, treaties, and the interdependent world system have played in China's growing compliance... Kent's case studies are insightful, comprehensive, and invaluable in understanding China's behavior in multilateral organizations. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia
by S. Paul Kapur
2007
"This book represents a landmark in South Asian security studies. It carefully blends significant empirical research with deft theoretical analysis."
--Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
"This is an important book, containing valuable analysis about the effects of nuclear weapons on security in South Asia and broader insights about the potential effects of nuclear proliferation elsewhere around the globe."
--Scott Sagan, Stanford University
"[T]his bookoffers a succinct and theoretically and empirically sophisticated treatment of the dangers of proliferation in South Asia[I]t is a major advance over many competing works."
--T.V. Paul, McGill University
"Scholars often assume that after decades of intense study during the Cold War, the political effects of nuclear weapons are well understood. The innovative arguments in Kapur's Dangerous Deterrent, which explores the consequences of India's and Pakistan's acquisition of nuclear weapons on conventional conflict between them, suggest that much room remains for insightful scholarship."
--Political Science Quarterly
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SERIES
(Re)Negotiating East & Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
by Alice D. Ba, forthcoming 2009
Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia
by Edward Aspinall, forthcoming 2009
Commerce in the Shadow of Conflict: Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond
by Scott L. Kastner, forthcoming 2009
