Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation ― A Conceptual Analysis of Cooperative Security With Illustrations of Practices in East Asia

Muhibat (Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta) examines how states approach security cooperation, emphasizing cooperative security as an approach to regional security. Using primarily social constructivism, he asks whether the concept of cooperative security changes according to the dynamics that characterize the particular region where it is applied, and what factors affect the practice of cooperative security. The study began as his PhD dissertation at the University of Hamburg. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)