Chapter 1: The Question of Regional Order in East Asia
David Arase
II. China Rising
Chapter 2: China and East Asian Cooperation: Fundamental Bottlenecks, Recent Problems, and New Orientations
Shi Yinhong and Han Caizhen
Chapter 3: Remapping Asia's Geopolitical Landscape: China's Rise, US Pivot, and Security Challenges for a Region in Power Transition
Jingdong Yuan
Chapter 4: Sino-U.S. Strategic Convergence and Divergence in East Asia
Shi Bin
Chapter 5: The United States and Challenges to East Asia’s Security Order
Wei Zongyou
Chapter 6: How Stable Is China's Economy?
Paul Armstrong-Taylor
III. Northeast Asia
Chapter 7: US-China Rivalry and South Korea's Strategy
Chaesung Chun
Chapter 8: Formation of Regional Community in East Asia: A Japanese Perspective
Kazuhiko Togo
Chapter 9: Reconstructing Sino-US Cooperation in North Korea
Fan Jishe
Chapter 10: Pathways to a Northeast Asian Energy Regime
Gaye Christoffersen
IV. Southeast Asia
Chapter 11: ASEAN's Indispensible Role in Regional Construction
Pham Quang Minh
Chapter 12: South China Sea Disputes: Litmus Test for China’s Peaceful Rise—How US Scholars View South China Sea Issues
Xue Li
Chapter 13: The ASEAN-Centered Cooperative Security Regime in Asia
Daljit Singh
V. Indian Ocean Region
Chapter 14: The China-India-US Engagement in the Asia-Pacific: Security Implications for East Asian Regionalism
Zhang Li
Chapter 15: India's Growing Role in East Asia
Mahendra Gaur and Sylvia Mishra
David Arase is Resident Professor of International Politics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre in Nanjing, China. Author of many articles, book chapters, and commentaries, he has published four books, of which the most recent, The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia (co-edited), won the 2011 Ohira Memorial Foundation Special Prize.
This book discusses the impact of China's rise on regional order at three levels: Sino-US relations, East Asia’s contested sub regions and regional institutions. Sino-US relations provide a framework to examine macro-regional relations. In East Asia’s contested sub regions-Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the eastern Indian Ocean region—the author explores the crucial role regional powers and local states play in maintaining effective governance and stability. The author shows how regional institutions attempt to develop cooperation and shared norms that work toward regional community. The inclusion of leading experts from China, the US, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, and India gives this collection a unique viewpoint, and reveals how China's rise looks from inside and outside China, as well as inside and outside the region.