Muthiah Alagappa
Biographic Data
| ID | 740227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muthiah Alagappa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muthiah |
| FAMILY NAME | Alagappa |
| SIGNATURE | ALAGAPPA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | East–West Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Taiwan's Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century: Democratization and Cross-strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and re-conquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Sovier Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet. Will Xinjiang participate in China's twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instab…
International Relations studies in Asia: Distinctive trajectories
This article investigates and explains the development of International Relations studies (IRS) in China, Japan, and India. Beginning in early 1980s IRS experienced exponential growth in China and is becoming a separate discipline in that country. Despite early starts, IRS in Japan and India is still an appendage in other disciplinary departments, programs, and centers although growing interest is discernible in both countries. Continued rise of …
A changing Asia: Prospects for war, peace, cooperation and order
Asia has experienced dramatic changes over the last six decades. It has transitioned from war to peace, from conflict to cooperation, and from economic stagnation and impoverishment to dynamic growth and prosperity. Concurrently regional order in Asia has evolved from a purely instrumental order to one with important normative-contractual features. This article identifies key changes in Asia and explores the following questions: What explains war…
Strengthening International Studies in India
This report takes stock of the state of the field of international studies in India and recommends a vision and measures to strengthen the field and make it equal to those in leading institutions and programmes around the world. The ultimate goals of the measures recommended in the report are to: a. make India a leading centre of knowledge and education in international studies; b. produce a substantive pool of Indian scholars doing cutting-edge …
The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia
The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in the national security strategies of twelve countries and the ASEAN states, and their implications for security and stability in a broadly defined Asian security region that includes the Middle Ea…
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features
More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Strait, and over Kashmir, the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation, and the concern with the rising power of China and with American dominance. Indeed, some experts see Asia as a dangerous and unstable place. Alagappa disagrees, maintaining t…
Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia
Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or se…
Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis
(1997). Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 421-442
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or se…
Regionalism and conflict management: A framework for analysis
Regionalism, and more generally multilateralism, is commanding considerable attention in the policy and intellectual communities. In the security domain, this interest can be traced to a number of developments. One is the regionalization of international security brought about by the dramatic change in the dynamics of the international political system. In the absence of a new overarching and overriding global-level security dynamic, domestic, bi…
Democracy’s Future: The Asian Spectrum
Democracy’s FutureThe Asian Spectrum Muthiah Alagappa (bio) Early in the post-World War II era, a majority of countries in East and Southeast Asia had democratic political systems. Over time, however, many of these were supplanted by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. By the early 1970s, only Japan retained a fully democratic system, with Malaysia and Singapore belonging to the category of semidemocracy. The February 1986 “people power” revo…
Regionalism and the quest for security: Asean and the Cambodian conflict
The reordering of the international system in the absence of a hegemonic war has revitalized the debate on the nature of international politics, and the continued relevance of the realist paradigm.(2) Critics of the realist paradigm contend that as survival has ceased to be a problem for more developed states, they no longer search consistently for relative gains. Their behavior now can only be understood in the context of international instituti…
The dynamics of international security in Southeast Asia: Change and continuity
Regional Arrangements and International Security in Southeast Asia: Going Beyond Zopfan
The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests
(1990). The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests. The Pacific Review: Vol. 3, Pacific Perestroikas, pp. 266-271
In Search of Peace: Confidence Building and Conflict Reduction in the Pacific. Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Roundtable
Soviet Policy in Southeast Asia: Towards Constructive Engagement
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY has since 1985 continued to undergo profound changes. The imperatives of domestic political and economic reform and the assumptions that underscore new political thinking have had a deep impact on the Soviet world view resulting in dramatic changes in Moscow's approach to international politics. Soviet foreign policy no longer appears to be based on East-West ideological competition but on measured cooperation in order to re…
U.S.‐Asean Security Relations: Challenges and Prospects
Having gone through at least three distinct phases between 1950-70, 1971-78 and 1978-89, U.S.-ASEAN security relations have now entered into yet another phase of evolution and change that is full of challenges and variables. Of these, the Cambodian conflict, the long-standing differences in Sino-Soviet relations, the fast-changing character of Soviet-American competition, the continuing role of the U.S. market as the engine of growth for the expo…
The Major Powers and Southeast Asia
US-Asean Security Relations: Challenges and Prospects
Japan ́s Political and Security Role in the Asia‐Pacific Region
This paper examines Japan's present and future international polit ical and security roles especially in the light of changes affecting the three factors {the economy, the U.S. connection, and pacifism) that have had a major impact on Japan's international orientation. The article concludes that ]apan is now more favourably disposed to play a comprehensive international roJe but that the development of this role will continue to be incremental. I…
Southeast Asia in 1986: Year of Change, Continuity, and Challenges
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
International Relations studies in Asia: Distinctive trajectories
This article investigates and explains the development of International Relations studies (IRS) in China, Japan, and India. Beginning in early 1980s IRS experienced exponential growth in China and is becoming a separate discipline in that country. Despite early starts, IRS in Japan and India is still an appendage in other disciplinary departments, programs, and centers although growing interest is discernible in both countries. Continued rise of …
Soviet Policy in Southeast Asia: Towards Constructive Engagement
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY has since 1985 continued to undergo profound changes. The imperatives of domestic political and economic reform and the assumptions that underscore new political thinking have had a deep impact on the Soviet world view resulting in dramatic changes in Moscow's approach to international politics. Soviet foreign policy no longer appears to be based on East-West ideological competition but on measured cooperation in order to re…
The dynamics of international security in Southeast Asia: Change and continuity
Strengthening International Studies in India
This report takes stock of the state of the field of international studies in India and recommends a vision and measures to strengthen the field and make it equal to those in leading institutions and programmes around the world. The ultimate goals of the measures recommended in the report are to: a. make India a leading centre of knowledge and education in international studies; b. produce a substantive pool of Indian scholars doing cutting-edge …
Democracy’s Future: The Asian Spectrum
Democracy’s FutureThe Asian Spectrum Muthiah Alagappa (bio) Early in the post-World War II era, a majority of countries in East and Southeast Asia had democratic political systems. Over time, however, many of these were supplanted by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. By the early 1970s, only Japan retained a fully democratic system, with Malaysia and Singapore belonging to the category of semidemocracy. The February 1986 “people power” revo…
Regionalism and the quest for security: Asean and the Cambodian conflict
The reordering of the international system in the absence of a hegemonic war has revitalized the debate on the nature of international politics, and the continued relevance of the realist paradigm.(2) Critics of the realist paradigm contend that as survival has ceased to be a problem for more developed states, they no longer search consistently for relative gains. Their behavior now can only be understood in the context of international instituti…
The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests
(1990). The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests. The Pacific Review: Vol. 3, Pacific Perestroikas, pp. 266-271
Regionalism and conflict management: A framework for analysis
Regionalism, and more generally multilateralism, is commanding considerable attention in the policy and intellectual communities. In the security domain, this interest can be traced to a number of developments. One is the regionalization of international security brought about by the dramatic change in the dynamics of the international political system. In the absence of a new overarching and overriding global-level security dynamic, domestic, bi…
The Major Powers and Southeast Asia
Japan ́s Political and Security Role in the Asia‐Pacific Region
This paper examines Japan's present and future international polit ical and security roles especially in the light of changes affecting the three factors {the economy, the U.S. connection, and pacifism) that have had a major impact on Japan's international orientation. The article concludes that ]apan is now more favourably disposed to play a comprehensive international roJe but that the development of this role will continue to be incremental. I…
A changing Asia: Prospects for war, peace, cooperation and order
Asia has experienced dramatic changes over the last six decades. It has transitioned from war to peace, from conflict to cooperation, and from economic stagnation and impoverishment to dynamic growth and prosperity. Concurrently regional order in Asia has evolved from a purely instrumental order to one with important normative-contractual features. This article identifies key changes in Asia and explores the following questions: What explains war…
Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis
(1997). Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 421-442
Regional Arrangements and International Security in Southeast Asia: Going Beyond Zopfan
Southeast Asia in 1986: Year of Change, Continuity, and Challenges
Japan ́s Political and Security Role in the Asia‐Pacific Region
This paper examines Japan's present and future international polit ical and security roles especially in the light of changes affecting the three factors {the economy, the U.S. connection, and pacifism) that have had a major impact on Japan's international orientation. The article concludes that ]apan is now more favourably disposed to play a comprehensive international roJe but that the development of this role will continue to be incremental. I…
U.S.‐Asean Security Relations: Challenges and Prospects
Having gone through at least three distinct phases between 1950-70, 1971-78 and 1978-89, U.S.-ASEAN security relations have now entered into yet another phase of evolution and change that is full of challenges and variables. Of these, the Cambodian conflict, the long-standing differences in Sino-Soviet relations, the fast-changing character of Soviet-American competition, the continuing role of the U.S. market as the engine of growth for the expo…
The Major Powers and Southeast Asia
US-Asean Security Relations: Challenges and Prospects
The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests
(1990). The Cambodian conflict: Changing interests. The Pacific Review: Vol. 3, Pacific Perestroikas, pp. 266-271
In Search of Peace: Confidence Building and Conflict Reduction in the Pacific. Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Roundtable
Soviet Policy in Southeast Asia: Towards Constructive Engagement
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY has since 1985 continued to undergo profound changes. The imperatives of domestic political and economic reform and the assumptions that underscore new political thinking have had a deep impact on the Soviet world view resulting in dramatic changes in Moscow's approach to international politics. Soviet foreign policy no longer appears to be based on East-West ideological competition but on measured cooperation in order to re…
The dynamics of international security in Southeast Asia: Change and continuity
Regional Arrangements and International Security in Southeast Asia: Going Beyond Zopfan
Regionalism and the quest for security: Asean and the Cambodian conflict
The reordering of the international system in the absence of a hegemonic war has revitalized the debate on the nature of international politics, and the continued relevance of the realist paradigm.(2) Critics of the realist paradigm contend that as survival has ceased to be a problem for more developed states, they no longer search consistently for relative gains. Their behavior now can only be understood in the context of international instituti…
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or se…
Regionalism and conflict management: A framework for analysis
Regionalism, and more generally multilateralism, is commanding considerable attention in the policy and intellectual communities. In the security domain, this interest can be traced to a number of developments. One is the regionalization of international security brought about by the dramatic change in the dynamics of the international political system. In the absence of a new overarching and overriding global-level security dynamic, domestic, bi…
Democracy’s Future: The Asian Spectrum
Democracy’s FutureThe Asian Spectrum Muthiah Alagappa (bio) Early in the post-World War II era, a majority of countries in East and Southeast Asia had democratic political systems. Over time, however, many of these were supplanted by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. By the early 1970s, only Japan retained a fully democratic system, with Malaysia and Singapore belonging to the category of semidemocracy. The February 1986 “people power” revo…
Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis
(1997). Regional institutions, the UN and international security: A framework for analysis. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 421-442
Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or se…
Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia
Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features
More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Strait, and over Kashmir, the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation, and the concern with the rising power of China and with American dominance. Indeed, some experts see Asia as a dangerous and unstable place. Alagappa disagrees, maintaining t…
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia
The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in the national security strategies of twelve countries and the ASEAN states, and their implications for security and stability in a broadly defined Asian security region that includes the Middle Ea…
Strengthening International Studies in India
This report takes stock of the state of the field of international studies in India and recommends a vision and measures to strengthen the field and make it equal to those in leading institutions and programmes around the world. The ultimate goals of the measures recommended in the report are to: a. make India a leading centre of knowledge and education in international studies; b. produce a substantive pool of Indian scholars doing cutting-edge …
International Relations studies in Asia: Distinctive trajectories
This article investigates and explains the development of International Relations studies (IRS) in China, Japan, and India. Beginning in early 1980s IRS experienced exponential growth in China and is becoming a separate discipline in that country. Despite early starts, IRS in Japan and India is still an appendage in other disciplinary departments, programs, and centers although growing interest is discernible in both countries. Continued rise of …
A changing Asia: Prospects for war, peace, cooperation and order
Asia has experienced dramatic changes over the last six decades. It has transitioned from war to peace, from conflict to cooperation, and from economic stagnation and impoverishment to dynamic growth and prosperity. Concurrently regional order in Asia has evolved from a purely instrumental order to one with important normative-contractual features. This article identifies key changes in Asia and explores the following questions: What explains war…
Taiwan's Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century: Democratization and Cross-strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and re-conquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Sovier Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet. Will Xinjiang participate in China's twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instab…
Political science (21 works) · Geography (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Development economics (9 works) · History (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)