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Decolonisations Compared -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Maps -- 1 Introduction -- Notes -- 2 Central America -- French Conquest -- Independence -- Monroe Doctrine -- Central America -- Filibuster and National War -- Liberals and Dictatorships -- US Intervention -- Cold War -- Neo-liberalism -- Notes -- 3 Southeast Asia -- The Treaty of 1824 -- Netherlands India -- Borneo and Sulu -- Malaya -- Siam -- Vietnam -- Burma -- The Japanese -- Confrontations -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- Indo-China and ZOPFAN -- Cambodia -- Timor -- Notes -- 4 The Caucasus -- The Soviet Union -- Azerbaijan -- Karabakh -- Georgia -- Armenia -- Post-Soviet Russia -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Index

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Maritime Security and Piracy -- Chapter 3: The Straits of Malacca: Malaysia's Threat Perception and Strategy for Maritime Security -- Introduction -- The Straits of Malacca: Malaysia's Threat Perception in the Maritime Zone -- Maritime Strategy and Malaysia's Approach -- National Initiatives and Measures to Protect the Straits of Malacca -- Initiatives and Security Measures at the Regional Level -- Initiatives at the International Level and Security Cooperation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Securitising Piracy and Maritime Terrorism along the Malacca and Singapore Straits: Singapore and the Importance of Facilitating Factors -- Introduction -- A Hydrographical Overview of These Waters -- The Uncertain Nature and Extent of Piratical Attacks Along the Malacca and Singapore Straits -- First Wave: The Littoral States' Collaborative Responses from 1992 to 1998 -- Second Wave: The Littoral States' Collaborative Responses from 1999 to 2006 -- Why Is There a Need for Continued Scrutiny if These Maritime Attacks Have Decreased? -- Institutional Frameworks that Encourage Inter- State Cooperation -- The Analytical Framework -- Securitising Piracy, Armed Robbery and Maritime Terrorism Along the Malacca and the Singapore Straits -- Identifying the Securitising Actor -- Identifying the Referent Object -- Identifying the Functional Actors -- Identifying the Target Audience -- Identifying the Speech Act -- On the Importance of These Straits to Global Trade in General, and to Singapore, in Particular -- On the Conflation of Piracy and Maritime Terrorism -- On the Seriousness of the Threat Posed by Pirates and Maritime Terrorists to the Region

This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The articles in this collection present case studies on Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia as a whole and focus on domestic definitions of threats and conceptualisations of security. These studies map the differing understandings of danger in this region and explore how contending narratives of "threats" and "security" affect the national maritime security policy deliberations within the claimant countries of this region. Those interested in maritime security and management in Asia will find this collection an invaluable addition to the literature on this topic.--

Western opera is a globalized and globalizing phenomenon and affords us a unique opportunity for exploring the concept of "orientalism," the subject of literary scholar Edward Said's modern classic on the topic. Nicholas Tarling's Orientalism and the Operatic World places opera in the context of its steady globalization over the past two centuries. In this important survey, Tarling first considers how the Orient appears on the operatic stage in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States before exploring individual operas according to the region of the "Orient" in which the work is set

Half title-page -- Full title-page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Cambodia -- Chapter One: From Geneva to Geneva -- Chapter Two: Another Geneva? -- Chapter Three: Three Deaths -- Chapter Four: Policies and Elections -- Chapter Five: A Conference on Vietnam? -- Chapter Six: Communists and Coup -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Timors chequered history, many other states have been involved. This book examines Britain's role, recognising periods marked by World War II and the decolonisation of Southeast Asia and making links between them, in memory and in history. The book ends with an account of the Indonesian incorporation of the territory. Tarling, Uni of Auckland

The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it. This book is an erudite and stimulating study on the latter. Placing these states in a long term historical context Tarling brings out the way in which the rivalries of those powers within the region and outside it have affected the states within the region. He also shows how divisions within the region, and within states in the region, offered invitations and opportunities for intervention from outside, and so perhaps gave Southeast Asia an imp.

"Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region in many areas, open to outside influence in many fields, but not without dynamics of its own, Southeast Asia has been through centuries the site of states with very differing levels of power and in a variety of forms. It has also been exposed to powerful neighbours, seawards empires and contending world powers. Adopting a historical approach, the book analyses state relations against the background of regional and geopolitical developments from within and without. It discusses how Southeast Asian states of the 21st century can best preserve their security in the context of the rise of China, and goes on to look at the extent to which they can preserve their autonomy of action. Offering a long-term perspective on these issues, this inter-disciplinary study is of interest to scholars and students of Southeast Asian history and politics, world history and international relations"--

With the disappearance of the imperial structures that had dominated Southeast Asia, newly independent states had to develop foreign policies of their own. But so far few if any of these states have been willing to allow the public to explore any documentation of their activities. Building on his earlier work that drew on U.K. records, the author incorporates material from New Zealand archives - which also contain reports from Australian and Canadian diplomats - to provide an historical analysis of the foreign policies of Southeast Asian nations from a New Zealand perspective