Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age

ISBN-13: 9781032057668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 244 str.

Brendon J. Cannon; Kei Hakata

Opis

This book focuses on the Indo-Pacific’s growing world prominence & into the roles of Eurasia, small island states, Middle East, Africa, Australia, India, Japan & US & is a unique study for scholars, policymakers, students & strategists of international politics & Area Studies.

Recenzje

As China forcefully attempts world dominance, it disrupts the rules-based international order. Its refusal to heed the Permanent Court of Arbitration's award voiding its nine-dash line claim and acknowledging the Philippines exclusive sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea, is only one example. In confronting challenges to maintaining a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific order, Indo-Pacific Strategies enlightens freedom-loving people through its analyses. The authors and editors deserve commendation.

- Justice Conchita Carpio Morales (Ret.), Supreme Court Justice (former) and Ombudsman (former), Republic of the Philippines

From major powers to the too-often ignored small island states, the topics covered in this collection reflect the latest scholarship and thinking on the vital geopolitical environment of the Indo-Pacific. Of particular interest are perspectives on how Europe, the Middle East and Africa are interacting with the region. It will be hard for policymakers and strategists to find a more up-to-date, theoretically sophisticated and useful volume than Indo-Pacific Strategies.

- Michael R. Auslin, Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of Asia's New Geopolitics

The age of the Indo-Pacific is here. Indo-Pacific Strategies will be an essential and comprehensive resource for scholars and policymakers as they grapple with the complexities of this new era in geopolitics. A real strength of this volume is the way it brings together an array of experts whose perspectives reflect the true multipolarity of the Indo-Pacific, a region too large and diverse for hegemony. And the welcome focus on formulating national strategies means this is not purely an academic exercise.

- Professor Rory Medcalf, Australian National University, author of Indo-Pacific Empire

 

As the idea of the Indo-Pacific overcomes the initial skepticism that greeted it and gains political traction, Cannon and Hakata offer a valuable assessment of the prospects for this new strategic geography. In combining the perspectives from key actors across this broad theater with deep theoretical and practical insights, Indo-Pacific Strategies becomes a good pivot to scholars interested in the geopolitical churn that is unfolding in the Eastern Hemisphere.

- Professor C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore

Spis treści

Part I Contextualizing the Indo-Pacific 1. The Indo-Pacific as an emerging geography of strategies 2. The Indo-Pacific’s evolving strategic landscape: Geopolitics as a framework for grand strategy? Part II Indo-Pacific lynchpins 3. Building Australia’s unified regional strategy through the Indo-Pacific concept 4. India’s Indo-Pacific prism: Finding strategic autonomy in the face of Chinese adventurism 5. Japan and the Indo-Pacific: The formation of geostrategy 6. Indo-Pacific positioning of the United States: Evaluating dis/continuities Part III East Asia and the Indo-Pacific 7. China’s foreign policy transformation and its implications for the Indo-Pacific 8. ASEAN in search of a common strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Renato Cruz de Castro Part IV Frontlines of the Indo-Pacific 9. Small island states’ security in the Indo-Pacific 10. Europe’s Indo-Pacific puzzle: In search of an independent foreign policy 11. Arab Gulf States in the Indo-Pacific: The limits of ambiguous hedging strategies 12. Influence and power in the Western Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Eastern Africa