The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia
This dissertation examines a less-common aspect of conventional political economy the trading and exporting of arms and its implications for regional and global relations. Government investments in machines of destruction reshape the geopolitical stability and foreign policies of exporters...
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| author | Lim, Paul Ziwei |
| author2 | Ronald George Matthews |
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| description | This dissertation examines a less-common aspect of conventional political economy the
trading and exporting of arms and its implications for regional and global relations.
Government investments in machines of destruction reshape the geopolitical stability
and foreign policies of exporters and importers, as well as regional neighbours and wary
rivals. Specifically, this dissertation surveys China's arms exports to Southeast Asia
from a political economy perspective which differs from conventional security analyses
on the same topic. Traditional scholarship on this issue has largely focused on the
revolution of military affairs in China, counter trade and defence offsets between China
and importing countries, and arms races between zealous regional rivals fuelled by
Chinese arms sales. However, this dissertation uses the sales of Chinese arms as a
case study to trace the political, economic and diplomatic impacts on Southeast Asia.
The rising dragon of the East has in the past two decades factored very importantly into
contemporary scholarship in every field imaginable. International relations studies on
the Chinese have straddled politics, economics, diplomacy and security, with increasing
linkages between each of these areas. Because Chinese arms sales to Southeast Asia
is multidimensional, it would be wrong to examine each area on its own without
considering the others because the result would be so narrow and incomplete that it
would provide the false notion of complete comprehension. This dissertation also
highlights the increasing interdependence of countries, which are caught in enmeshing
webs of the various aspects of diplomacy. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/651412020-11-01T08:20:36Z The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia Lim, Paul Ziwei Ronald George Matthews S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Business::International business::Asia This dissertation examines a less-common aspect of conventional political economy the trading and exporting of arms and its implications for regional and global relations. Government investments in machines of destruction reshape the geopolitical stability and foreign policies of exporters and importers, as well as regional neighbours and wary rivals. Specifically, this dissertation surveys China's arms exports to Southeast Asia from a political economy perspective which differs from conventional security analyses on the same topic. Traditional scholarship on this issue has largely focused on the revolution of military affairs in China, counter trade and defence offsets between China and importing countries, and arms races between zealous regional rivals fuelled by Chinese arms sales. However, this dissertation uses the sales of Chinese arms as a case study to trace the political, economic and diplomatic impacts on Southeast Asia. The rising dragon of the East has in the past two decades factored very importantly into contemporary scholarship in every field imaginable. International relations studies on the Chinese have straddled politics, economics, diplomacy and security, with increasing linkages between each of these areas. Because Chinese arms sales to Southeast Asia is multidimensional, it would be wrong to examine each area on its own without considering the others because the result would be so narrow and incomplete that it would provide the false notion of complete comprehension. This dissertation also highlights the increasing interdependence of countries, which are caught in enmeshing webs of the various aspects of diplomacy. Master of Science (International Political Economy) 2015-06-15T04:08:33Z 2015-06-15T04:08:33Z 2014 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65141 en 72 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business::International business::Asia Lim, Paul Ziwei The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title | The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title_full | The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title_fullStr | The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title_short | The political economy of China's arms exports into Southeast Asia |
| title_sort | political economy of china s arms exports into southeast asia |
| topic | DRNTU::Business::International business::Asia |
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