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Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic pressures and the youth bulge and reformulating structural economic deficiencies, in addition to dealing with the fallout from progressive state failure in Yemen, require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear pro

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Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The turbulent Taiwan Strait -- Chapter 2 Peaceful development: Mainland China's institutionalism-oriented Taiwan policy (2008-2016) -- Chapter 3 Selective engagement: Mainland China's dual-track Taiwan policy (2016-) -- Chapter 4 Changes and continuity in mainland China's Taiwan policy -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Navigating the cross-Strait turbulence -- Index.

This book examines every aspect of Beijing's stragegies, €ranging from€political, economic and social challenges, to the Taiwan and Hong Kong issues, to the implications of these strategies in terms of China's place within the Asia Pacific, and indeed within the world system.

Chap1: Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography -- Chap2: Australian Contributions to the History of Military Geography -- Chap3: A Country Girt by Sea -- Chap4: Reflections on Development and Application of SMG2.0 -- Chap5: Climate Change as a Hyperthreat -- Chap6: Religion and Australia's Near Region -- Chap7: Geographies of Irregular Warfare -- Chap8: Strategic Military Geographies of the South China Sea -- Chap9: Australia's Most Southern Shores -- Chap10: The Evolution of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) -- Chap11: Characterising the Environmental Values of the National Defence Estate, with Emphasis on Native Vegetation -- Chap12: Australia's First and Most Important War -- Chap13: The Climate-Security Teleconnections of El Niño Southern Oscillation -- Chap14: From Skin to Strategy -- Chap15: Sustainably Managing the Defence Estate.

"As the Earth sets new record highs in temperature almost every year, the Arctic could begin experiencing ice free summers as early at 2013. With a new ocean opening up, the Arctic's future is unclear. In addition to the opening sea lines of communication, many fear that an ice free Arctic will lead to a resource race for the oil, natural gas, and minerals that the Arctic is expected to hold. Of the eight Arctic nations, only the U.S. remains non-party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Becoming a party to the convention would provide the framework necessary for the U.S. to establish its Arctic sovereignty with legal certainty and create a sustainable national Arctic policy."-- Abstract