"Security and Modernity in Southeast Asia"

Security and Modernity in Southeast Asia is a basic text for university students researching Security Studies. Modernity is the experience of what it means to be alive in today’s world. It represents the background for the issues and themes of security that engulf our world. The book contains the basics of Security Studies including the various Schools of Thought: realism, liberalism, constructivism, and structuralism. It takes a global perspective as all security issues will impact on other states, nations, territories and territorial claims. Real life examples have been taken from Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia to illustrate the contemporary issues and themes.Thus, students are introduced to Security Studies through a clear combination of theory and reality.