Browsing by Author "Rolls, Mark G."

• ASEAN and the non-traditional regional security agenda 

  Rolls, Mark G. (2010)

  Without a doubt, the whole area of non-traditional security – whether it be threats, issues or challenges (the three are more or less used interchangeably in ASEAN statements and documents on the subject) – has come to ...

  

• Centrality and continuity: ASEAN and regional security since 1967 

  Rolls, Mark G. (Springer-Verlag, 2012)

  Security has undoubtedly been a central and continuous feature of ASEAN since its establishment. While it has modified its basic thinking on security and adapted elements of the attendant principles, aims and ways of ...

• China's media diplomacy in the South China Sea disputes. Case studies of the Scarborough Shoal stand-off and the oil rig crisis 

  Le, Thi My Danh; Rolls, Mark G. (Amsterdam University Press, 2022)

  The Scarborough Shoal stand-off and the oil rig crisis hold symbolic value to the Chinese. During the crises, China’s sovereignty claims over the South China Sea have been recounted several times. As the way that the Chinese ...

  

• Nationalism in the 21st Century and its impact on revisionist great powers 

  Haysom, Scott C. (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Since 2012, there has been a rise in the assertiveness of both China and Russia’s foreign policies. Both countries have framed their actions as justifiable for various reasons including: historical claims; the assertion ...

  

• Governance and conflict in Pakistan: Developing a Conflict Prevention and Reduction (CPR) model to promote peace in Baluchistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) 

  Karim, Muhammad Arsalan (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Pakistan is an unstable country, home to a single religious nation made up of four major regional ethnic sub-nations. The inability of the political leadership of Pakistan to successfully connect and merge the interests ...

  

• China’s approach towards post-cold war multilateral arms control: development of integrative steps 1990-1996 

  Zhen, Huang (The University of Waikato, 1999)

  This thesis is a study of China’s changing approach towards multilateral arms control since the end of the Cold War. In the wake of the end of the bipolar confrontation, China emerged as a major concern in the international ...

  

• Media diplomacy in the South China Sea disputes: Vietnam, China and the Philippines 2012 – 2016 

  Le, Thi My Danh (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  After shelving tensions for development until the 2000s, the South China Sea (SCS) issue re-emerged with three notable crises: the Scarborough Shoal dispute, the oil rig crisis and the SCS arbitration case. During the ...

  

• China-US competition: The Chinese perspective 

  Liu, Tao Zheng (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  In the last two decades, the rise of China became the priority concern of the US and the Western world. The competition between China and the US is becoming increasingly more serious during this time of uncertainty and ...

  

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