Northeast Asian Critical Security: Essays in Non-Traditional Security

Renwick, N.

This book explores non-traditional, 'critical' security issues in Northeast Asia. This exploration adopts an approach to critical security that emphasizes the play of identity and culture in the apprehension of insecurity understood primarily in existential terms. The study thus focuses upon the apprehension of insecurity derived from demographic pressures, resource limitations, ecological degradation, food politics, identificatory challenges, health threats, and political change. The study seeks to assess existing approaches to such threats and to propose alternatives that stress the importance of transnational co-operation as the principal means of tackling the complexity of contemporary societal insecurities in Northeast Asia.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-12-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333667880

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287181

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 321