Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia

Security Relations and Institutionalism in Southeast Asia

China’s Potential Military Threat to Southeast Asia

The potential threats China poses to Southeast Asia can be placed in two broad categories: conventional military threats and more ambiguous and subtle challenges, possibly in the guise of maintaining regional order. We recognize that these categories are part of a continuum: China employs both approaches as needed—beginning with subtle or indirect threats, and escalating when that approach fail...

Civil - Military Relations in a Neo - Kantian World , 1886 - 1992

Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 227-254. SEUNG-WHAN CHOI is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He will join the faculty of the University of Illinois, Chicago in August 2004. He specializes in international politics (terrorism and international conf...

Challenge and Innovation: Civil-military Relations in a Changing World

The NGO-Military Contact Group (NMCG) Conferences provide a platform for civil-military relations and discussion of operational approaches and dilemmas. The distinguished speakers and audience members bring strong experience and analysis to the discussions. Dialogue on the day, particularly around operations in West Africa, Mali, and the Middle East, focussed on the practical. The conflict anal...

Health in southeast Asia.

Neglect of human rights that compromises health outcomes, the combination of high population density and domestic livestock that encourages zoonoses, claims over viral sovereignty, and an emphasis on health tourism that creates dual standards of care: too often health in southeast Asia is in the news for the wrong reasons. Today’s Lancet reports good news from the region as well as disappointme...