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Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security

Part of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137488251

ISBN: 978-1-349-57892-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 10, 2015

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Introduction

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 1 –15

[This book is the product of several years of research into the changing nature of security in Asia. It examines the new modes of security governances that have emerged in the face of progressing globalisation (and regionalisation), new sources of insecurity and the liberalisation and...
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Discursive Institutionalism and Institutional Change

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 16 –40

[The power of think tanks is contingent upon their ability to move ideas through political space and have these ideas accepted and acted upon by political actors. This necessitates an in-depth understanding of the dynamics undergirding ideational impact on the policy process. Towards this end,...
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Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 41 –67

[Asian think tanks have been vocal proponents of the Non-Traditional Security (NTS) agenda. This agenda goes deeper than redefining or securitising certain political issues (for more on securitisation, see Buzan et al. 1998). Rather, it is a collection of political paradigms based upon the...
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Institutes of Strategic and International Studies

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 68 –94

[ASEAN-Institutes for Strategic and International Studies (AI) evolved organically as the fruit of personal relationships between individuals from several Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Many of these individuals were leaders of national think tanks and it was “only...
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Expanding Beyond ASEAN: Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 95 –122

[Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) is a region-wide think tank network affiliated with the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). Expanding upon the network established by the ASEAN-Institutes for Strategic and International Studies (AI), CSCAP is composed of 21 think tanks and...
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Shangri-La Dialogue

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 123 –150

[The Asia Security Summit, commonly known as the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), is the exception to the rule regarding regional security dialogues in Asia. The Dialogue is the only Track I security process initiated and managed by a think tank (the International Institute for Strategic Studies...
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The MacArthur Foundation’s Asia Security Initiative

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 151 –174

[The topic of this final case study is the Asia Security Initiative (ASI), established by the MacArthur Foundation in May, 2009. The Initiative has contributed both ideas and resources to all three of the previously presented networks and has also promoted the NTS agenda in its own unique way....
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Think Tanks as Governance Entrepreneurs

Zimmerman, Erin

Pages: 175 –188

[Think tanks are more than idea brokers; they are the creators, developers and advocates of specific political agendas. This book has interrogated the collective mobilisation of certain think tank networks in pursuit of the NTS agenda in Asia. It has brought ideas back into politics and placed...

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