Changing Security Dynamic in Eastern Asia: Focus on Japan

Publishers: IDSA and Promilla & Co.
ISBN: 81-86019-51-9
Rs 1350
US $ 50

The Book

This book is the outcome of the proceedings of the 7th 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.

This title has been published in association with The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

The Editors

N.S. SISODIA is Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, and a Member of the National Security Advisory Board. He holds an Honour's degree in History from the University of Delhi and a Master's degree in Public Policy and Management from Harvard University, where he was a Mason Fellow. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 and served as Additional Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat and Secretary to Government of India in the Ministries of Finance and Defence. He was a member of the Task Force constituted to recommend measures for Reforming the Management of Defence. He has also been Vice-Chancellor, University of Udaipur.

G.V.C. NAIDU is Senior Fellow with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. A doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialises in security issues in the Asia-Pacific. His research interests include security problems of the Asia-Pacific, role of multilateralism, Japan's foreign and security policies, US policies towards Asia, energy and maritim-related issues, and India's relations with Southeast Asia and Japan. He has published a book on the Indian Navy and Southeast Asia and several monographs.