Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority Alagappa Muthiah
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority Alagappa Muthiah Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. As Asian nations…
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Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority Alagappa Muthiah
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries.
This book aims to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of Asian security by investigating conceptions of security in sixteen Asian countries. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or selected countries. The book undertakes an ethnographic, country-by-country study of how Asian states conceive of their security.
For each country, it identifies and explains the security concerns and behavior of central decision makers, asking who or what is to be protected,
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