ABSTRACT

How are the rising mutual concerns of Asian and European countries shaping their approaches to the international order? Contributors to this volume discuss emerging critical issues in International relations, including the Indo-Pacific constructs, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the progress of established regional security mechanisms like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. They also compare western and non-western approaches to these issues, with a holistic perspective on the origins and evolutions of these approaches. Both the Indo-Pacific constructs and BRI present a remarkable set of opportunities for Europe as well as Asia. This book presents key implications of the changing politico-security dynamics in the two regions from the perspectives of both Asian and European scholars and theoretical traditions. A must-read for scholars of International Relations with a focus on relations between Asia and Europe.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part 1|28 pages

Making sense of international relations: western and non-western approaches

chapter 1|7 pages

Making sense of international relations

Western and non-western approaches

chapter 2|11 pages

Making sense of international relations

Western, non-western and universal approaches

chapter 3|8 pages

Making sense of international relations

A Japanese perspective

part 2|41 pages

European and Asian security architecture: current developments

chapter 4|11 pages

New threats to the multilateral order

What can ASEAN and the EU do?

chapter 5|10 pages

A common security platform?

EU and ASEAN have security concerns but also need to prioritize according to their needs

chapter 6|10 pages

The European security architecture

Current developments

part 3|55 pages

Emerging constructs: Belt and Road Initiative and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

part 4|59 pages

Emerging constructs: The Indo-Pacific

chapter 12|15 pages

The Indo-Pacific

An evolving regional construct

chapter 15|13 pages

A critique of the Indo-Pacific construct

Geopolitics of Western-Centrism