The Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia utilises a key security concept to examine one of the most dramatic regions of the world. Focusing on ethnic tensions, intra-ASEAN rivalries and the emergence of Chinese hegemony, the security dilemma is used to provide insights into a wide range of the region's contemporary security issues. In addition, the book expounds upon some of the new uses of the security dilemma, exploring both its applicability to ethnic tensions and a new variant, a state-induced security dilemma.

ALAN COLLINS is Lecturer in the Department of Political Theory and Government at the University of Wales, Swansea. He held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth between 1995 and 1998. He has written articles on Southeast Asian security which have appeared in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Pacifica Review, and is the author of The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War.