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"Global Public Governance is a text written for students, scholars and lay people interested in learning about this global system, which emerged and has evolved in response to global challenges that no one actor can effectively address. Drawing on what has been published over the last several decades, this text highlights the importance of states and nonstate actors seeking to provide global public goods through collective action. Covering conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues, as well as eight main themes - global security, human rights, global criminal justice, global health, global education, global finance, global trade, and the global environment - this text offers a comprehensive treatment of global public governance. It concludes that the current system remains far from effective, but world government is not a better alternative. In short, this text proposes a regional approach to global public governance"--

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Peace and security in Indo-Pacific Asia -- Peace and security in realist tradition -- Peace and security in nonrealist traditions -- Peace and security in Indo-Pacific Asia -- The book's organizational structure and a word of caution -- Part I: Realist tradition -- 1. Classical and neoclassical realist perspectives -- Classical and neoclassical realism in a nutshell -- Classical/neoclassical realist perspectives on Indo-Pacific Asia -- The role of regional institutions and hegemonic stability in Indo-Pacific Asia -- 2. Offensive and defensive realist perspectives -- Offensive and defensive realism in a nutshell -- Offensive realist perspectives on Indo-Pacific Asia -- Defensive realist perspectives on Indo-Pacific Asia -- 3. Realist institutionalist perspectives -- Realist institutionalism in a nutshell -- Toward a concert of power in Indo-Pacific Asia? -- Peace enforcement in Indo-Pacific Asia -- Part II: Liberal tradition -- 4. Functionalist and neofunctionalist perspectives -- Functionalism and neofunctionalism in a nutshell -- The limits of regional integration in Indo-Pacific Asia -- The limited role of epistemic communities in Indo-Pacific Asia -- 5. Neoliberal institutionalist and domestic politics perspectives -- Interdependence, neoliberal institutionalism, and domestic politics in a nutshell -- Interdependence, institutions, peace, and security in Indo-Pacific Asia -- Domestic politics, peace, and security in Indo-Pacific Asia -- 6. Commercial and democratic liberal perspectives -- Commercial and democratic liberalism in a nutshell -- Commercial liberal perspectives on Indo-Pacific Asia -- Democratic liberal perspectives on Indo-Pacific Asia -- Part III: Pacifist tradition.

Demonstrating that none of the various perspectives under review has emerged as the clear winner in the struggle for theoretical hegemony in security studies, this book shows that eclectic perspectives, like democratic realist institutionalism, can better explain peace and security in the Asian Pacific

This book is about peace and security in the Asia-Pacific: it critically reviews various perspectives on peace and security in the region and seeks to determine whether any of them has now emerged as the winner in the struggle for hegemony. If none has, it may be wise for us to aim at building innovative theories based on the strengths of existing theories. As shall be discussed in this introduction, the study of peace and security is not only about the actual use or threat of force and the prevention of war, but also about the causes, consequences, and control of insecurity said to be rooted in various sources of threat to humans, their values, their agencies, and their environment, as well as about possible cures. Security as a concept is essentially contested and has become increasingly contestable. This conceptual challenge has the advantage of opening space for debate, but this book will make the case that, in the end, theoretical eclecticism offers the most promising perspective for the emerging policy agenda of building a regional security community during the 21st century.

This book explores human security in East Asia, focusing especially on the challenges of coordination and collaboration among actors involved in securing and promoting human security. It includes detailed case studies of military interventions in East Asia, including East Timor, and also non-military interventions, including international criminal justice in Cambodia.

This book explains why international donors may succeed in putting war-torn countries on the path of democratic transition and negative peace, but fail to consolidate the gains they make. Critical of neo-institutionalism, but sympathetic to historical and normative institutionalism, this book advances 'complex realist institutionalism' theory

Cambodia's hegemonic party system that emerged after the violent removal of First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh early in July 1997 has now given way to a one-party state, which still remains prone to tension and instability. The party system has become less factionalised and can be characterised as moving from high to medium factionalism. This development resulted from the growing domination of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and the weakening of the opposition parties, such as National United Front for an Independent, Netural, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia, which splintered and become almost irrelevant in Cambodian politics. The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) emerged as the main opposition party after the 2013 election but was then banned from competing in the 2018 election. Although the CNRP remains united by its anti-CPP position, it is still fractured along political lines between two former opposition parties – the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party. Historical institutionalism sheds some new light on the variation of political developments among political parties and within them, but does not supplant the fact that party leaders are rational to the extent that they select strategies in pursuit of their interests defined as power or security under specific institutional constraints or the lack thereof.

This article seeks to shed light on how and why the Cambodian People's Party (the CPP) emerged and became dominant in the multi-party system formally introduced to Cambodia when the United Nations intervened in the early 1990s. Historical factors, relative power, leadership, and tactics matter a great deal. Hun Sen has been in power for more than 30 years and his effectiveness can be attributed to three tactics: coercion, co-option, and control. The post-Cold War environment also made it possible for the CPP government to use these tactics successfully, as major powers preferred to work with Hun Sen or did little to undermine him.