Publisher's Synopsis
This three-volume set examines the relationship between government and civil society in their efforts to define and pursue security. Including the results of an extensive research program, each volume is organized around one of the three principal themes - environment, people and globalization, supplying compelling evidence of the tension between economic change and human well-being. - - The phenomenon of globalization is well described and the process of globalization is the topic of extensive and often contradictory analysis. This third volume accepts that globalization is both the context within which Southeast Asian countries must function and is a process which governments and businesses have embraced. The focus of this text is on how the phenomenon of globalization has affected individuals' well-being and community security. The chapters offer wide-ranging studies of the interactive affects of globalization on such areas as the liberalization of financial markets, export manufacturing industries, the poor, human rights, the military and regional institutions.
