Browsing East-West Center by Author "Alagappa, Muthiah"

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Asia's security environment : from subordinate to region dominant system

Alagappa, Muthiah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008)

To provide the context for investigating the roles of nuclear weapons and their implications for regional security and stability, this chapter maps Asia's present security environment and likely changes in that environment. ...
Democratic transition in Asia : the role of the international community

Alagappa, Muthiah (Honolulu : East-West Center, 1994-10)
Exploring roles, strategies, and implications : historical and conceptual perspectives

Alagappa, Muthiah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008)

This chapter outlines the transforming logic of nuclear weapons and explores at a conceptual level the roles of nuclear weapons, the strategies for their employment, and their implications for international security to ...
International response to nuclear tests in South Asia : the need for a new policy framework

Alagappa, Muthiah (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1998)

International response to recent nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have been dominated by two policy frameworks: one rooted in considerations of the non-proliferation regime and the other in the belief that the Indo-Pakistani ...
Introduction : investigating nuclear weapons in a New Era

Alagappa, Muthiah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008)

Leaders and governments in nuclear weapon states, their allies, and aspirants to the nuclear club believe that their nuclear forces or those of their allies can advance national security by providing a capability to counter ...
Military professionalism in Asia : conceptual and empirical perspectives

Alagappa, Muthiah (Honolulu, HI : East-West Center, 2001)

Contents: Military professionalism: a conceptual perspective / Muthiah Alagappa -- India: military professionalism of a first-world army / Dipankar Banerjee -- Japan: completing military professionalism / Noboru Yamaguchi ...
Nuclear weapons and national security : far-reaching influence and deterrence dominance

Alagappa, Muthiah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008)

This study advances four propositions on the role of nuclear weapons in national security in the twenty-first century strategic environment. First, the primary role of nuclear weapons now and in the foreseeable future is ...
Reinforcing national security and regional stability : the implications of nuclear weapons and strategies

Alagappa, Muthiah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008)

The study advances four other propositions on the implications of nuclear weapons and strategies for security and stability in the Asian security region and for the global nuclear order. First, it argues that nuclear weapons ...