@article{823623,
      author = {Chong, Alan,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/823623},
      title = {International security in the Asia-Pacific transcending  ASEAN towards transitional polycentrism /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
      abstract = {This volume argues that international security in the  Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of  centrifugal and centripetal trends. Transitional  polycentrism is intrinsically awkward as a description of  the security of states and their populations; it implies  the loosening of state control and the emergence of newly  asserted authority by mixed constellations of  intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. It  implies a competition of agendas: threats to the integrity  of borders and human security threats such as natural  disasters, airliner crashes, and displacement by man-made  pollution and food scarcity. Conversely, polycentrism could  also imply a return to a more neo-realist oriented  international order where great powers ignore ASEAN and  steer regional order according to their perceived interests  and relative military superiority. This book embraces these  contradictory trends as a foundation of analysis and  accepts that disorder can also be re-described from the  perspective of studied detachment as polycentric order.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60762-7},
      recid = {823623},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      year = {2018},
}