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Explaining Contemporary Asian Military Modernization: The Myth of Asia's Arms Race

Explaining Contemporary Asian Military Modernization: The Myth of Asia's Arms Race

Lee, Sheryn

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Series: Asian Security Studies

General Asian HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

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ISBN10: 0367506785
ISBN13: 9780367506780
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 188
Language: English

This book proposes a novel theoretical framework of interactive arming in order to explain armament dynamics in contemporary Asia.

Frequently, the modernisation of contemporary naval forces in Asia is described as an arms race, with the underlying assumption being that weapons acquisitions and increases in defence expenditure are competitive and bilateral and due to conflicting purposes or mutual fears. This book argues that the concept of an arms race is an unsuitable one for explaining contemporary military modernisation in 21st-century Asia. Instead, it proposes a novel and innovative concept of interactive arming and argues that what drives conflict is political rivalry, not weapons acquisitions. Instead of perceiving arming as abnormal behaviour, the book views arming as a natural strategic behaviour of states and military modernisation as a basic requirement for a state's ability to survive.

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