Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era
eBook - ePub

Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era

A New World Emerging

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era

A New World Emerging

About this book

This book examines the critical changes to the Asia-Pacific security architecture emerging in the context of shifts in the global order as the Obama Administration's major strategic innovation and likely legacy unfold. The author reviews the state of the international security system during the Obama presidency, recording the Administration's Asia-Pacific inheritance, and tracing its efforts to chart a collaborative course aimed at retaining US primacy amidst strategic turbulence. While security discourses are coloured by relative US 'decline' and China's 'rise, ' the book points out the competitive-cooperative complexity of interactions, with symbiotic economic ties moderating rivalry. Focusing on the military-security cutting edge of Sino-US dynamics, the narrative outlines the dangers posed by extreme nationalist dialectics in an interdependent milieu. It examines the policies of Japan, Australia, India and Russia towards the evolving Sino-US diarchy, while recording Washington's and Beijing's contrasting approaches to these allies and possible adversaries. The book concludes with observations on the loss of definition and clarity as the system evolves with multiple actors bidding for influence, and the need for statesmanship as the systemic fulcrum moves from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Asian Politics, American Politics, International Security and International Relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era
  3. Politics in Asia series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Acronyms/Abbreviations
  9. Preface
  10. Prologue: Shifting tectonic plates
  11. 1 Obama's early initiatives and Beijing's response
  12. 2 The Japan-Australia-India strategic triangle
  13. 3 The Kremlin's gamesmanship
  14. 4 ASEAN's security nightmares
  15. Epilogue: A new Cold War?
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index