Asia-Pacific in the New World Order critically explores the notion that a distinctive regional power bloc is developing linking countries bordering the Pacific, with East Asia at its core. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific area into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. Historical narratives alongside geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives are deployed to examine the shifting pattern of power relations and security structures across the region, set within a wider world context. Key issues addressed include: * what are the primary security problems of the region and how are they being resolved? * does the dynamic growth of the region, and particularly the rise of China, pose a challenge to existing structures of world order? The text has a strong interdisciplinary flavour drawing on analytical approaches from the international relations, political economy and political geography literature. Authors have been drawn from the Asia-Pacific region and the UK and all are established scholars in their specialist fields. Contents Series preface Preface Introduction • Anthony McGrew and Christopher Brook Part 1: Evolution 1 Pacific ties: the United States of America and an emerging ‘Pacific community’? • Frank Gibney 2 From imperialism to the end of the Cold War • Colin Mackerras 3 The rise of the Asia-Pacific • Javed Maswood Par 2: The New Regional Order 4 The Asia-Pacific: what sort of region in what sort of world? • Barry Buzan 5 The Asia-Pacific security order • J.N. Mak 6 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: Japan • Kenneth Pyle 7 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: the People’s Republic of China • Denny Roy 8 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: the USA • Anthony McGrew 9 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: strategic uncertainty and the Asia-Pacific middle powers • Nikki Baker 10 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: the Pacific Islands • Richard Herr Part 3: A Pacific Community? 11 Regionalism and globalism • Christopher Brook 12 The growth of intergovernmental collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region • John Ravenhill 13 Regional co-operation: the transnational dimension • Lawrence T. Woods 14 The European Union and the Asia-Pacific • Michael Smith 15 The Asia-Pacific: what kind of challenge? • Gerald Segal Acknowledgements List of contributors Index Explores the notion that a distinctive Asia-Pacific regional power bloc is developing. This study looks at the complex interplay between regional, global and national forces that have transformed the Asia-Pacific area into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. Historical narratives alongside geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives are deployed to examine the shifting pattern of power relations and security structures across the region. Key issues addressed include: the primary security problems of the region and how they are being resolved; and the dynamic growth of the region, particularly the rise of China, and how it may pose a challenge to existing structures of world order Since the early decades of the nineteenth century, peoples on opposite sides of the Pacific have come to regard each other with paradoxical mixtures of admiration and disgust, curiosity and aversion, spiritual selflessness and basic economic greed. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between the global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific arena into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. __Asia-Pacific in the New World Order__
