ABSTRACT
This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it. Over the years, the Indo-Pacific region has become a prime driver of global economic growth and has generated considerable interest from countries both within and without. The region is now witnessing an intensified great power competition for greater geostrategic space, thus shaping the 21st-century world order. The volume focuses on the emerging strategies of the main actors involved in this competition. It discusses various key issues such as the purpose of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and its post-pandemic agenda, the conceptualisation of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) amid an intensifying Sino-US great power competition, the strategies of ASEAN and South Korea, China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific, economic architecture and supply chain disruption in the region, as well as the geopolitical strategy of the European Union for the Indo-Pacific.
A crucial study of the Indo-Pacific region in the post-COVID-19 world, the book gives fresh insights into the areas of convergence and divergence in the strategic visions of the many regional actors. It will be of great interest to policymakers as well as students and academics in the fields of political science, international relations, foreign policy, geopolitics, security studies, strategic studies, as well as area studies, namely East and Southeast Asian studies, European Union studies, American studies and Australian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|92 pages
Advancing an Effective Security Framework
chapter Chapter 1|22 pages
Strategising Institutional Arrangement in Japan's FOIP
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
The Indo-Pacific Power
chapter Chapter 3|23 pages
Australia and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific
part 2|50 pages
Convergences and Divergences on China
part 3|68 pages
Unravelling the Regional Strategies
chapter Chapter 12|19 pages
Free and Open Indo-Pacific
part 4|34 pages
The Quest for Economic Framework