Asia Pacific Issues

This book introduces readers to the deep political tensions in the Asia-Pacific and offers classroom simulations designed to encourage students to delve deeper into the issues and dynamics of the region.

This edited book examines the contemporary regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific recognizing the ‘Butterfly effect’, the concept that small causes can have large effects: ‘the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world’. For many Asia-Pacific states, domestic security challenges are at least as important as external security considerations. Recent events (both natural disasters and man-made disasters) have pointed to the inherent physical, economic, social and political vulnerabilities that exist in the region. Both black swan events and persistent threats to security characterize the challenges within the Asia-Pacific region. Transnational security challenges such as global climate change, environmental degradation, pandemics, energy security, supply chain security, resource scarcity, terrorism and organized crime are shaping the security landscape regionally and globally. The significance of emerging transnational security challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region impact globally and conversely, security developments in those other regions affect the Asia-Pacific region.

"Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the ""war on terror""; our governments have mobilized their resources for ""homeland security""; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks. Yet while the new threat is genuine, w"

This book focuses on three major areas of change and challenge faced by Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region: economic globalization, political and social change, and regional patterns of transformation. It not only encourages a retrospective learning from past failures, but also tries to anticipate the challenges of a new century and millennium.

This volume represents research on a selection of key issues in international business in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular the contributors examine the internationalization process, export expansion and performance, foreign direct investment and the management of international business relationships. More specifically, they analyze: the growth patterns of Danish and US companies developing operations in the region; the impact of the Internet, the competitiveness of the Australian wine industry, and the development and application of export performance measures; the factors influencing the location decisions of Japanese Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the investment risk perceptions of Australian MNEs; the multinational knowledge acquisition modes of Taiwanese electronics firms; the protection of intellectual property rights; the use of performance measures in international joint ventures; the human resource management practices of ethnic Chinese-owned enterprises compared to Anglo-American MNEs.