This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region.

How do states (re)define their relationships amid the current global power transition? How do rival actors influence the rules and formation of new institutions for their own benefit? What role will institutions take as independent actors in influencing and constraining the behavior of states? Institutional development in Asia is characterized by idiosyncratic and diverse motivations (both material and non-material), a variety of policy...

Re-rising Japan: Its Strategic Power in International Relations shows up-to-date evidence that Japan is still a major power in today's international relations where interests and power of the United States and China have increasingly clashed over many issues.