Changing Security Dynamic in Eastern Asia : Focus on Japan

Contents: Inaugural address/K. Natwar Singh. Special address/Shigeru Ishiba. Valedictory address/Pranab Mukherjee. I. Asia and the international security environment: 1. Japan and emerging East Asian security/Akio Watanabe. 2. US perspectives on East Asian security/Brad Glosserman. 3. Asia in the emerging global matrix/Yang Bojiang. 4. Major trends in international security and implications for Eastern Asia/C. Raja Mohan. II. Strategic challenges and opportunities: 1. Nuclear impasse and the future of Inter-Korean reconciliation/Jin-Hyun Paik. 2. Regional process and East Asian security/Francois Godement. 3. Current security contingencies in East Asia: a Nuclear North Korea and the cross-strait dispute/Adam Ward. 4. China\'s rise: implications and challenges for East Asia/Sujit Dutta. 5. Maritime security challenges in the Asia Pacific and Southern Asian region/K. Raja Menon. 6. WMD shadow over Asia Pacific/Ajey Lele. 7. India and East Asia: The Look East Policy/G.V.C. Naidu. III. Japan\'s changing strategic and security profile: 1. Changing security environment around Japan: a mid-term perspective/Takenori Horimoto 2. Japan\'s constitution and its implications on security issues/Shogo Arai. 3. Japan\'s position on nuclear weapons: a Japanese view/Shinichi Ogawa. 4. Japanese Foreign Policy and self-defence forces/Takako Hirose. 5. The impact of Japanese missile defenses on global security/Aaron Karp. 6. Continuity and change in Japanese security policy/Jennifer M. Lind. 7. The new great silk road and the new great game: Japan\'s geopolitics in Central Asia/Farkhod Fazilovich Tolipov. IV. Regional perspectives on East Asian security: 1. China\'s Rise and Periphery Policy/Zhao Gancheng. 2. Non-traditional security challenges in East Asia/Suchit Bunbongkarn. 3. Malaysia\'s perspective on East Asian security/IIango Karuppannan. 4. A Singapore perspective on East Asian security/Kumar Ramakrishna. 5. Taiwan and East Asian security/Cheng-Yi Lin and Fu-Kuo Liu. 6. Australian perspective on East Asian security/Robert Ayson. 7. Some perspectives on East Asian security: a view from New Zealand/Peter Cozens. 8. Mongolian perspective on East Asian security/Adiya Tuvshintugs. 9. East Asian security: a Bangladesh perspective/Muhammad Abdul Matin. 10. Pakistani perspective on East Asian security/Jamshed Ayaz Khan. 11. Germany and East Asian security/Frank Umbach. 12. Security in East Asia: new horizons/Vladimir S. Myasnikov. V. Geo-economic transformation and energy compulsions: 1. The case for a broader Asian Community and a possible roadmap/Nagesh Kumar. 2. Kazakhstan perspectives on Asian energy security/Assylbek Tauassarov. 3. The future of petroleum: an Indian perspective/Chudamani Ratnam. 

"This book is the outcome of the proceedings of the 7 Asian Security Conference organised by IDSA in January 2005. Eastern Asia was chosen keeping in view the remarkable transformation this region has been witnessing since the end of the Cold War. The special focus on Japan was to underscore the profound changes that Japan is effecting to its security and foreign policies and their likely impact on the rest of the region. Given its enormous complexity, while the region continues to be the most promising in terms of economic dynamism, its security remains a cause for concern. Intra-regional economic integration and cooperation is growing apace, but there are many issues that may imperil regional peace and stability. It is this dynamic that the conference wanted to capture. The book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate on the East Asian security dynamic."  (jacket)