description: This present study is an effort to address the dearth of critical and/or post-positivist perspectives in security studies of and about the Asia-Pacific region. It demonstrates how regional communities of security specialists and intellectuals, including knowledge communities such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Institute of Strategic and International Studies and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, have contributed to just such a state-centric, political image at the expense of alternative ideas and, in so doing, have promoted and legitimized their own identities as authorities on regional security. This work shows how post-positivist analysis, contrary to what its many detractors may think, is neither prolix nor self-indulgent. Rather, it invites critical reflection on the conditions that produce particular urgent questions (albeit at the expense of other questions) of about international relations, such as the question of Asia-Pacific regional security.
language: English
title: Role of Knowledge Communities in Constructing Asia-pacific Security: How Thought and Talk Make War and Peace
titlecomplete: Role of Knowledge Communities in Constructing Asia-pacific Security: How Thought and Talk Make War and Peace
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr