Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series Series Editor: Mark Beeson,
Winthrop Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Western …

This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to understand the role of
regional powers in creating and maintaining regional security orders. As a result of the …

ABSTRACT The Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization have both proved to be key security-coordinating and training instruments in …

As the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation observed its fifth anniversary in June 2006, the
question of where the regime fits within the expanding area of international strategic …

The purpose of our paper is to contribute to the literature on autocracy promotion by
analyzing Central Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as …

Although multinational military exercises have become a common foreign policy tool over
the last three decades, our understanding of their purpose and variation is limited. Why do …

ABSTRACT The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), comprising soldiers from the Lake
Chad Basin countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Benin), has been countering …

The number of multinational military exercises—that is, military training events between two
or more states—has grown dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Moreover, many of …

The perception of the Cold War nuclear era in the West was of a clear and present threat
from the Soviet Union that had to be matched by the United States and its allies. The Cold …

The collapse of the Soviet Union left behind a huge territorial space divided between 15
newly independent states (NIS) that had previously been interconnected for seven decades …