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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and the Indo-Pacific. The Asian region has become the fulcrum of international relations globally—it is the most economically vibrant, geostrategically significant, socially and culturally diverse, and militarily dangerous region in the world. The world's leading great powers—the United States and China—jockey for primacy and vie for influence throughout the region, while "middle powers"—India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea—are extending their regional reach. The ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is collectively important in its own right, but has also become the epicenter of US-China regional competition. While Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands largely operate in their own orbits, Australia has assumed growing regional impact. North Korea and Taiwan are both significant actors but they are also each tinderboxes of potential conflict. While the region is geographically sprawling across the Indo-Pacific, it is tied together economically, technologically, and strategically. No one working in or on Asia cannot afford to read this volume.
Contents
Map of Asia
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
Preface to the Third Edition
Part I: Introduction
1 International Relations in Asia: Grappling with Complexities
David Shambaugh
Part II: Legacies and Theories
2 The Evolving Asian System: Three Transformations
Samuel S. Kim
3 Thinking Theoretically About Asian IR
Amitav Acharya
Part III: The Roles of Regional Powers
4 America's Role in Asia: Challenged Leadership
Robert Sutter
5 China's Role in Asia: Attractive or Aggressive?
Phillip C. Saunders
6 Japan's Role in Asia: From Free Rider to Thought Leader
Michael J. Green
7 India's Role in Asia: A Regional Power with Global Ambitions
T. V. Paul
Part IV: Subregional Actors
8 Southeast Asian States and ASEAN: A Center of Courtships and Cooperation
Cheng-Chwee Kuik
9 South Korea: An Ambivalent Middle Power
Scott Snyder
10 North Korea: Continuity without Change
Victor Cha and Ellen Kim
11 Taiwan: Foreign Relations without Formal Recognition
Shelley Rigger
12 Australasia: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Robert Ayson and Rory Medcalf
Part V: Transregional Linkages and Dynamics
13 The Asian Regional Economy
Edward J. Lincoln
14 The Asian Regional Security Environment
Bates Gill
15 Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, and Human Rights in Asian IR
Rollie Lal
Part VI: Looking to the Future
16 Asian IR in the 2020s: Factors for the Future
David Shambaugh
Index 441
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