Human Security Securing East Asia's Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Teh Cheng Guan, Benny (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Social Policy.; Migration.

Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics. Yet, inter-state relations have continued to dominate security concerns in East Asia. This has, unfortunately, eluded the broader understanding of issues and challenges faci...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Human security development and the future of East Asia: Benny Teh Cheng Guan
• Part I: 1: The state, the people and responses to human security concerns: Human insecurities or liabilities?: The changing security paradigms and the case of North Korean refugees: Jaime Koh
• 2: Human insecurity in the People's Republic of China: The vulnerability of Chinese women to HIV/AIDS: Anna Marie Hayes
• 3: From national security to human security: population policy shifts in Vietnam: Kathleen A. Tobin
• 4: Irregular migration in Thailand: new possibilities for anti-trafficking and development programs: Jennryn Wetzler
• 5: Security in labor migration in the Philippines: national honor, family solidarity and migrants' protection: 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: Duncan NcDuie-Ra
• 7: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) and climate change: a threat to national, regime and human security: Alfred Gerstl and Belinda Helmke
• 8: Depoliticizing natual disasters to enhance human security in a sovereignty-based context: lessons from Aceh(2004) to Yangon(2008): Delphine Alles
• 9: Human health threats and implications for regional security in Southeast Asia: James Campbell
• 10: The proliferation of trading agreements and implications of human livelihood: Benny Teh Cheng Guan
• 11 Human security, capital punishment and East Asian democracies: Sangmin Bae
• 12: An emerging human security threat on Pacific Island States: analyzing legal and politcal implications of territorial inundation: Chih-Chieh Chou
• Index.