Regional Security in the Third World: Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East

This reissue, first published in 1986, argues that there is a radical difference between the use of the term Regional Security when applied to the Third World rather than the developed world. It explores the concept of regional security and shows how items which make for regional security in the developed world - such as strong cohesive states or the linking of a states security to the international security system - are absent in the Third World.