Critical security in the Asia-Pacific: an introduction

摘要: ABSTRACTTen years ago, Anthony Burke and I published an edited book: Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester UP, 2007). The book endorsed a broad conceptualisation of critical security that encompassed both deconstructive reconstructive approaches, while contributors applied these approaches to issues region as diverse North Korean nuclear program, Australian foreign policy, Indonesian separatism role military southeast Asia, among others. This special issue, arising from series papers presented at ISA conference Hong Kong 2016, is not attempt ‘update’ what was never intended be genuine survey dynamics perspective. It is, rather, once again illustrate utility making sense of, potentially changing, conceptions practices region, through disparate range case studies. introductory pa...