Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the most important strategic and economic region in the world. Asia-Pacific is a region that is undergoing a major transformation, largely as a consequence of the rise of China and its growing rivalry with the United States. Whatever happens in the Asia-Pacific will profoundly influence global events, not just regional ones. Looking ahead, the region's future direction — and even its name — is contested and uncertain.
This two-volume reference work, by one of the world's leading analysts of regional affairs, places these events in historical context and considers what they may mean for future political, economic and strategic relations. By focusing on the United States, China and the region's most significant middle powers, the book explains why and how the Asia-Pacific has become the fulcrum of international events.
Contents: Volume 1: Geopolitics and Security:Security in Asia:Security in Asia: What's Different, What's Not?The Political-Economy of Security: Geo-Politics and Capitalist Development in the Asia-PacificGlobalisation, Security and International Order After September 11Geopolitics and the Making of Regions: The Fall and Rise of East AsiaAlternative Realities: Explaining Security in the Asia-PacificThe Impact of the United States:US Hegemony and Southeast Asia: The Impact of, and Limits to, American Power and InfluenceThe Declining Theoretical and Practical Utility of 'Bandwagoning': American Hegemony in the Age of TerrorInvasion by Invitation: The Role of Alliances in the Asia-PacificAmerican Hegemony and Regionalism: The Rise of East Asia and the End of the Asia-PacificThe Impact of China:Charmed or Alarmed? Reading China's Regional RelationsCan ASEAN Cope with China?The BRICS and Global Governance: China's Contradictory RoleHegemonic Transition in East Asia? The Dynamics of Chinese and American PowerCan China Lead?Coming to Terms with the Authoritarian Alternative: The Implications and Motivations of China's Environmental PoliciesMiddle Powers:Security Governance in Southeast Asia: The Paradoxes of CooperationCivil-Military Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines: Will the Thai Coup Prove Contagious?Taming the Tigers? Reforming the Security Sector in Southeast AsiaCan Australia Save the World? The Limits and Possibilities of Middle Power Diplomacy in the Twenty-First CenturyAsia's Competing Multilateral Initiatives and Imperatives: Quality Versus QuantityThe Future of Asian Regionalism: Not What It Used to Be?Volume 2: Geoeconomics and Development:Regional Development:Re-Thinking Regionalism: Europe and East Asia in Comparative Historical PerspectiveDoes Hegemony Still Matter? Revisiting Regime Formation in the Asia-PacificGlobalisation, Governance, and the Political-Economy of Public Policy Reform in East AsiaCrisis Dynamics and Regionalism: East Asia in Comparative PerspectiveThe US, China and Regional Governance:The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?Hegemonic Instability and East Asia: Contradictions, Crises and US PowerNeoliberalism and East Asia: Resisting the Washington ConsensusChina's Place in Regional and Global Governance: A New World Comes into ViewAsymmetrical Regionalism: China, Southeast Asia and Uneven DevelopmentThe China Model?Geoeconomics and US Leadership in Asia: The Rise and Fall of the Trans Pacific PartnershipGeoeconomics with Chinese Characteristics: The BRI and China's Evolving Grand StrategyThe Developmental State:The Rise and Fall (?) of the Developmental State: The Vicissitudes and Implications of East Asian InterventionismDevelopmental States in East Asia: A Comparison of the Japanese and Chinese ExperiencesDevelopmentalism with Vietnamese Characteristics: The Persistence of State-Led Development in East AsiaJapan's Reluctant Reformers and the Legacy of the Developmental StateWhat Does China's Rise Mean for the Developmental State Paradigm?Development in East Asia:Southeast Asia and the Politics of VulnerabilityRegional and Global Forces in East Asia's Economic Engagement with International SocietyAsia's Odd Men Out: Australia, Japan, and the Politics of RegionalismWhat Consensus? Geopolitics and Policy Paradigms in China and the USDemocracy, Development and Authoritarianism
Readership: International relations and geoeconomics students and those interested in contemporary issues of the Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific;Regionalism;International Relations;Security;Geopolitics;Geoeconomics0Key Features:Provides comprehensive coverage on contemporary issues in the Asia-PacificIncludes political, economic and strategic dynamics of regional changeOffers a single author perspective which gives coherence to the analysis