Asian Security

In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO's partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance's global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO's goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discussion about images and perceptions of NATO in the alliance's five global partners in the Asia-Pacific (Australia, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea). It treats perceptions as key factors behind global expectations of NATO, and as a key cultural filter triggering a range of its partners' reactions to NATO's global initiatives. The paper sets out and explains the theoretical framework used for the Special Issue, Miskimmon et al.'s 'strategic narrative' theory, and explains how each of the articles respectively emphasize the formation, projection/communication and reception of NATO's strategic narratives in the region. Contributions focus on external perceptions, images, and narratives of NATO after the end of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan, and post-Crimea, and are discussed in a post-US election context.

Natalia Chaban

Paul Bacon

Joe Burton

Vlad Vernygora

NATO Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region

北约全球认知——来自亚太地区的观点

India's relations with Afghanistan and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia have contributed to the growing interest in the country's rise. By treating them together as "Central Eurasia," the discourses of Indian foreign policy invoke a contiguous geopolitical locale bound to India by a shared past. Yet, despite the strategic articulation of a manifest Central Eurasian region, the article uncovers a puzzle of bifurcation in India's foreign policy reflecting distinct operationalizations of India's cultural capital in its relations with Afghanistan and the Central Asia republics. The comparative analysis indicates that prior historical experience becomes a compelling strategic context for the continuous framing and reframing of the country's foreign policy space, which reveals India's shifting perceptions of international order, self-identity, and global roles. India's interactions in Central Eurasia offer a good illustration of the crossroads that New Delhi's foreign policy is facing – either keep on proliferating discourses that spin yarns of the international influence of its historical capital or develop proactive diplomatic strategies that deliver the international status that India desires.

Emilian Kavalski

The Puzzle of India’s Relations with “Central Eurasia”

印度与“中亚”关系的谜题

Arfin Sudirman

Taufik Rachmat Nugraha

Space security in Indo-Pacific: an Indonesian perspective

印度-太平洋地区的空间安全：印尼视角

Dwayne Woods

Junda Li

Dangerous depths of bifurcation: the rise of “inter-national security narcissists” and undersea cable (dis) connections

分叉的危险深度：“国际安全自恋者”的崛起与海底电缆的（断）连接

Se-Woong Park

Illusion of nuclear superiority: an empirical study on the coercive value of nuclear superiority in a nuclear crisis

核优势的幻觉：核危机中核优势威慑价值的实证研究

Kirsten E. Schulze

J. Chernov Hwang

Poso’s Second Jihad: The Local, the National, the Global

波索的第二次圣战：地方、国家与全球

Ronald U. Mendoza

Cold War 2.0? Navigating economic development under increased geopolitical tensions

冷战2.0？在日益加剧的地缘政治紧张局势下推动经济发展

ISSN	1479-9855, 1555-2764
h-index	22

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2010，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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NATO Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region

The Puzzle of India’s Relations with “Central Eurasia”

Space security in Indo-Pacific: an Indonesian perspective

Dangerous depths of bifurcation: the rise of “inter-national security narcissists” and undersea cable (dis) connections

Illusion of nuclear superiority: an empirical study on the coercive value of nuclear superiority in a nuclear crisis

Space security in Indo-Pacific: an Indonesian perspective

Dangerous depths of bifurcation: the rise of “inter-national security narcissists” and undersea cable (dis) connections

Poso’s Second Jihad: The Local, the National, the Global

Illusion of nuclear superiority: an empirical study on the coercive value of nuclear superiority in a nuclear crisis

Cold War 2.0? Navigating economic development under increased geopolitical tensions