Description: This updated edition focuses on challenges to Asia-Pacific security presented by international terrorism. It reviews old security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the North Korean threat, WMD proliferation, the South China Sea dispute, and the future U.S.-China rivalry.
Review Quotes: "Carpenter and Wiencek's volume on Asian security issues has increasingly become an indispensable part of any set of general readings on the great breadth of security concerns and issues found in broad regional or narrow subnational context--as well as enduring areas of contention between nation states in Asia. The authors have retained their skill of identifying contributors whose knowledge of their respective area of competence runs deep, and whose experience in managing these issues, often in direct policy formation, complements their understanding. In this volume, brevity and even terseness brings the central issues to center stage, while the thrust is always contemporary, policy-focused, and balanced."