Human Security

• Introduction: Human security development and the future of East Asia: Benny Teh Cheng Guan.- Part I: 1: The state, the people and responses to human security concerns: Human insecurities or liabilities?: The changing security paradigms and the case of North Korean refugees: Jaime Koh.- 2: Human insecurity in the People's Republic of China: The vulnerability of Chinese women to HIV/AIDS: Anna Marie Hayes.- 3: From national security to human security: population policy shifts in Vietnam: Kathleen A. Tobin.- 4: Irregular migration in Thailand: new possibilities for anti-trafficking and development programs: Jennryn Wetzler.- 5: Security in labor migration in the Philippines: national honor, family solidarity and migrants' protection: Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot.- Part II: Regional approaches to human security and policy implications: 6: Insecurity within and outside the state: the regional and local dynamics of environmental insecurity in the Mekong: Duncan NcDuie-Ra.- 7: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) and climate change: a threat to national, regime and human security: Alfred Gerstl and Belinda Helmke.- 8: Depoliticizing natual disasters to enhance human security in a sovereignty-based context: lessons from Aceh(2004) to Yangon(2008): Delphine Alles.- 9: Human health threats and implications for regional security in Southeast Asia: James Campbell.- 10: The proliferation of trading agreements and implications of human livelihood: Benny Teh Cheng Guan.- 11 Human security, capital punishment and East Asian democracies: Sangmin Bae.- 12: An emerging human security threat on Pacific Island States: analyzing legal and politcal implications of territorial inundation: Chih-Chieh Chou.- Index.

From the reviews: "Human Security: Securing East Asia's Future, edited by Benny Teh Cheng Guan, and provides further insights into the complexities and challenges of human security in East Asian states. ... deserve a wide readership among academics, scholars, and students who are interested in international relations, human rights, and Asia studies." (Kai Chen, Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 3 (1), 2014) "Building upon the need for a more human-centered approach, the study of human security continues to mature into a serious area of dialogue and analysis as is so wonderfully demonstrated by the work in this book." Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor of Winnipeg University and former Canadian Foreign Minister "This collection of essays presents the reader with new and challenging insights on how human security has been implemented in a number of issue areas in East Asian countries." Dr. Bert Edstrom, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy, author of Japan and the Challenge of Human Security