Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia: A Post-US Regional Order in the Making?

by Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, H J Zweifel (Editor), Frans-Paul van der Putten

Overview

This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137364173
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/05/2014
Series:	Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Jaewoo Choo, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Alexis Littlefield, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Larry Niksch, independent researcher
Shi Yinhong, Renmin University of China in Beijing, China
Robert Sutter George Washington University, USA
Carlyle A. Thayer, University of New South Wales, Australia
Quansheng Zhao, University in Washington, USA
Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, University of Kent, UK
Frans-Paul van der Putten, Clingendael, The Netherlands
Nick Bisley, La Trobe, Australia
Kuniko Ashizawa, American University, USA
Alice D. Ba, American University, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why strategic uncertainty?; Elena Atanassova-Cornelis and Frans-Paul Van der Putten
PART I: EVOLVING REGIONAL SECURITY ORDER IN EAST ASIA - KEY PERSPECTIVES 1. Theoretical Approaches to Asia's Changing Security Order; Nick Bisley 2. East Asian Security, Policy Debates and American Leadership; Robert Sutter 3. China's Approach to the US Role in East Asia: The Dynamics of Volatile Competition; Shi Yinhong
PART II: EAST ASIAN RESPONSES TO STRATEGIC UNCERTAINTY 4. 'Keeping the United States In': Japan and Regional Order in East Asia; Kuniko Ashizawa 5. The US Security Role in South Korea: Issues that Test South Korean Confidence in the US Commitment; Larry Niksch 6. Political Resolve and Strategic Uncertainty in Taiwan-US Relations; Alexis Littlefield 7. New Strategic Uncertainty and Security Order in Southeast Asia; Carlyle A. Thayer
PART III: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF REGIONAL SECURITY ORDER 8. A US-China Dual Leadership in East Asia?; Quansheng Zhao 9. Non-Traditional Security Cooperation and Northeast Asian Regional Order; Jaewoo Choo 10. Power Bumps on the Way to Regional Community: Asia's Mixed Security Logics; Alice Ba
Conclusion: A post-US regional order in the making? East Asia's security futures; Frans-Paul van der Putten and Elena Atanassova-Corne

Editorial Reviews

'This important volume offers an excellent range of views and arguments on the most important strategic question in Asia, and perhaps globally, today. In well-considered chapters by many of the leading scholars of Asian strategic affairs it offers rigorous and balanced analyses of the key questions which will shape Asia's strategic order over coming years. The chapters combine scholarly rigour with a robust sense of political and policy realities. It will quickly win a key place in the literature on Asian strategic affairs.'

- Hugh White, Australian National University, Australia

'Changing Security Dynamics is an excellent and timely contribution to the key debates surrounding the evolving regional security order in East Asia. The volume brings together many of the established and now emerging thought leaders on these issues from North America, Asia and Europe. The analysis in the volume is distinguished by a mix of clear theoretical thinking, detailed consideration of the role of the US and China in determining any new or continuing security order, and the manoeuvring of

other key states actors in Northeast and Southeast Asia in influencing the emerging strategic landscape. Overall, the volume forms a central work in debating the future permutations of the US 'rebalance' and US-centred regional order and forms essential reading for both advanced researchers and students.' - Christopher W. Hughes, University of Warwick, UK

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