The late David Martin Jones, formerly Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London and Honorary Professor, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK, and M.L.R. Smith, Academic Principal, Australian War College, Australia

• Contents: Introduction: The Age of Delusion in the Asia–Pacific 1. The Delusions of Aseanology: Exploring the Sovietology of Southeast Asian Studies 2. An Imitation Community for Imitation States: ASEAN and the Region that Never Was 3. Asia Rising (Again): ASEAN and the Illusion of an Asian Model of Economic Development 4. The Contradictions in the Political Economy of East Asian Regionalism 5. A Delusion Transformed: ASEAN and East Asian Regionalism 6. Constructing and Deconstructing Regions: Australia’s Engagement with ‘Asia’ 7. Political Illiberalism and the War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Delusions of the Surveillance State Conclusion: It’s No Fun at the ASEAN Bibliography Index

'David Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and MLR Smith have delivered a wonderful neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia-Pacific.'

The late David Martin Jones, formerly Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London and Honorary Professor, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK, and M.L.R. Smith, Academic Principal, Australian War College, Australia

• Contents: Introduction: The Age of Delusion in the Asia–Pacific 1. The Delusions of Aseanology: Exploring the Sovietology of Southeast Asian Studies 2. An Imitation Community for Imitation States: ASEAN and the Region that Never Was 3. Asia Rising (Again): ASEAN and the Illusion of an Asian Model of Economic Development 4. The Contradictions in the Political Economy of East Asian Regionalism 5. A Delusion Transformed: ASEAN and East Asian Regionalism 6. Constructing and Deconstructing Regions: Australia’s Engagement with ‘Asia’ 7. Political Illiberalism and the War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Delusions of the Surveillance State Conclusion: It’s No Fun at the ASEAN Bibliography Index

'David Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and MLR Smith have delivered a wonderful neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia-Pacific.'

The late David Martin Jones, formerly Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London and Honorary Professor, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK, and M.L.R. Smith, Academic Principal, Australian War College, Australia

• Contents: Introduction: The Age of Delusion in the Asia–Pacific 1. The Delusions of Aseanology: Exploring the Sovietology of Southeast Asian Studies 2. An Imitation Community for Imitation States: ASEAN and the Region that Never Was 3. Asia Rising (Again): ASEAN and the Illusion of an Asian Model of Economic Development 4. The Contradictions in the Political Economy of East Asian Regionalism 5. A Delusion Transformed: ASEAN and East Asian Regionalism 6. Constructing and Deconstructing Regions: Australia’s Engagement with ‘Asia’ 7. Political Illiberalism and the War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Delusions of the Surveillance State Conclusion: It’s No Fun at the ASEAN Bibliography Index

'David Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and MLR Smith have delivered a wonderful neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia-Pacific.'