ASEAN and regional actors in the Indo-Pacific / Sueo Sudo, Chosein Yamahata, editors.
Sudō, Sueo.; Yamahata, Chosein.
2023
JZ1252
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Title
ASEAN and regional actors in the Indo-Pacific / Sueo Sudo, Chosein Yamahata, editors.
ISBN
9789819940202 (electronic bk.)
9819940206 (electronic bk.)
9819940192
9789819940196
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4020-2
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (300 p.)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-99-4020-2 doi
Call Number
JZ1252
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.5
Summary
This book discusses the shifting regional geopolitical engagements and development of rearranged connections emerging among ASEAN and non-ASEAN actors. First, the book focuses on the crucial discourse surrounding the Indo-Pacific region, including its challenges, continuity, and relevance. The discussion highlights the growing influence of regional actors such as India, Thailand, Japan, and the US, particularly in the context of a pressing question of collaboration versus containment amidst Chinas rise. The book delves into various topics, such as geopolitical anxieties, economic strength, foreign policy, international relations, development, and security promotion in South and Southeast Asia, through the lenses of ASEAN centrality and the Indo-Pacific strategy. Second, the volume emphasizes on the escalating tensions and the worsening crises in the region that cause major anxieties and the subsequent realignment and new alignment of countries relationships. Among several chapters of the volume, a large Indo-China state, Myanmar, takes a special place in the books discussions as it has grown as an important ground for a resource/energy race among geopolitically strategic partners. Additionally, Myanmar has the potential to become a balancer in ASEAN. Therefore, any positive development and change in course of relations to Myanmar, particularly with its neighbors, Japan, and Russia, in both historical and contemporary contexts, can have a significant impact not only on Myanmars course towards peace, democracy, and security, but also regional stability. The editors and contributors examine the unique position of ASEAN, with a focus on ASEAN centrality as a platform for addressing anxieties and building relationships to bridge the gap between world and regional players, including both friends and foes. Overall, the volume provides valuable insights into the Indo-Pacific regions complex dynamics, including cooperation and collaboration among regional actors for long-term stability and prosperity. The interdisciplinary composition of the book invites readers from various backgrounds to engage with constructive debates on general perception, contextual discussion, and the highlights of engaged research from local and international perspectives.
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Yamahata, Chosein.
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Intro
Contents
Edtiors and Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I Navigating Power Shifts
1 Pressing Challenges to New Relevance of the Indo-Pacific: Significance, Continuity, and Connectivity
Introduction
The Rise of China: Challenging the Liberal International Order
Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Forging a Values-Based Order in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific Concept: Significance
The Indo-Pacific Concept: Continuity
The Indo-Pacific Concept: Connectivity
Conclusion: Views Exchanged Across the Chapters
References

2 Complex Positioning: Thailand's Role in the Context of ASEAN "Centrality" and Indo-Pacific Security
Introduction
Understanding Thai Foreign Policy
Pluralism
Realism
Thai State Interests and "Complex Engagement"
Thai Foreign Policy and ASEAN Centrality
Thai Foreign Policy and Indo-Pacific Security
Conclusion
References
3 Japan's Indo-Pacific Strategy and ASEAN: Collaboration or Containment?
Introduction
The Rise of China and Japan's Strategic Response
Japan's Approach to India in 2007: Forging the Quad
Japan is Back: Building up a Strategic Japan

Japan's FOIP Strategy in 2016: Collaboration or Containment?
ASEAN's Response: AOIP 2019
Synthesizing FOIP and AOIP: Can Japan and ASEAN Work Together?
Conclusion
References
4 Look East to Act East: India's Commitment to ASEAN and the China Conundrum
India and Southeast Asia Before the Cold War
India's Diplomatic Stand of 1981 Cambodia Issues: ASEAN's View
India and ASEAN in the Post-Cold War Phase
The Significance of India's Look East Policy
The Shift from Look East to Act East
China Factor in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for India
References

5 Role of ASEAN Centrality in India's Indo-Pacific Strategy: Prospects and Challenges
Introduction
Outlook of Indo-Pacific
Essence of ASEAN Centrality in Indo-Pacific
India's Indo-Pacific Strategy
Role of ASEAN Centrality in India's Indo-Pacific Strategy
Conclusion
References
6 Pax Indo-Pacifica in the Sino-US Ice Age: Geopolitical Anxiety and America's Struggle for Global Supremacy
Discursive Anxiety and Anxious Power
The Trump Doctrine and Indo-Pacific Strategy
The Biden Doctrine: Change or Continuity?

The Sino-US Ice Age: An Emerging Bipolar International Order
Conclusion: Playing with Fire in the Indo-Pacific Century?
References
Part II Anxieties, Choices, and Relations
7 Alignment Choices in an Era of US-China Competition: Navigating a Taiwan Contingency and Trade Relationships
Introduction
Intensifying Competition: The End of Engagement
Taiwan: East Asia's Powder Keg
Fear of War Across the Taiwan Strait
Regional Responses to a Taiwan Contingency
Trade: Wealth and Power
Deepening Economic Ties
Chinese Economic Coercion
Conclusion: Anxieties and Choices

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