Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order

ISBN-13: 9781009393812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Brantly Womack

Opis

The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008 have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but China's presence, population, and production guarantee it a key role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered, interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Brantly Womack argues that Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working out a new world order.

Recenzje

'How will the asymmetric rivalry between global US and regional China play out in a multinodal world shaped by local agency? In Recentering Pacific Asia, Womack historicizes the centrality of Pacific Asia in analytical depth and challenges us to rethink the future of world order by taking seriously the asymmetric parity power dynamics in 'China's region.' Insightful, provocative, and timely, it compels us to think differently about Pacific Asia as central to global order transition.' Yongjin Zhang, Professor of International Politics, University of Bristol

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Continuities in China's Pacific Asian centrality; 2. Thin connectivity: traditional Chinese centrality; Commentary Wang Gungwu; 3. Sharp connectivity: Western modernization and de-centered Pacific Asia; Commentary Wu Yu-Shan; 4. Thick connectivity: the re-centering of Pacific Asia; Commentary Qin Yaqing; 5. China, Pacific Asia, and reconfiguring a multinodal world; Commentary: Evelyn Goh; 6. Global power rivalry, Pacific Asia, and world order.