"There is a significant uncertainty around US security commitment to East Asia over the next 15-20 years, underpinned by China's economic and military rise. This new collection investigates how and whether this affects the present-day strategic perceptions and behaviour of East Asian nations, and of the US itself. By exploring how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia, the contributors demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia, which has resulted in the emergence of alternative models of order that do not necessarily exclude America"--
There is a significant uncertainty around US security commitment to East Asia over the next 15-20 years, underpinned by China's economic and military rise. This new collection investigates how and whether this affects the present-day strategic perceptions and behaviour of East Asian nations, and of the US itself. By exploring how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia, the contributors demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia, which has resulted in the emergence of alternative models of order that do not necessarily exclude America.
Arvustused
'This important volume offers an excellent range of views and arguments on the most important strategic question in Asia, and perhaps globally, today. In well-considered chapters by many of the leading scholars of Asian strategic affairs it offers rigorous and balanced analyses of the key questions which will shape Asia's strategic order over coming years. The chapters combine scholarly rigour with a robust sense of political and policy realities. It will quickly win a key place in the literature on Asian strategic affairs.'
- Hugh White, Australian National University, Australia
'Changing Security Dynamics is an excellent and timely contribution to the key debates surrounding the evolving regional security order in East Asia. The volume brings together many of the established and now emerging thought leaders on these issues from North America, Asia and Europe. The analysis in the volume is distinguished by a mix of clear theoretical thinking, detailed consideration of the role of the US and China in determining any new or continuing security order, and the manoeuvring of
other key states actors in Northeast and Southeast Asia in influencing the emerging strategic landscape. Overall, the volume forms a central work in debating the future permutations of the US 'rebalance' and US-centred regional order and forms essential reading for both advanced researchers and students.' - Christopher W. Hughes, University of Warwick, UK
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| Introduction: Why Strategic Uncertainty? |
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Part I Evolving Regional Security Order in East Asia -- Key Perspectives |
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1 Theoretical Approaches to Asia's Changing Security Order |
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2 East Asian Security, Policy Debates and American Leadership |
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3 China's Approach to the US Role in East Asia: The Dynamics of Volatile Competition |
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Part II East Asian Responses to Strategic Uncertainty |
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4 "Keeping the United States In": Japan and Regional Order in East Asia |
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5 The US Security Role in South Korea: Issues that Test South Korean Confidence in the US Commitment |
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6 Political Resolve and Strategic Uncertainty in Taiwan-US Relations |
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7 New Strategic Uncertainty and Security Order in Southeast Asia |
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Part III Alternative Models of Regional Security Order |
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8 A US--China Dual Leadership in East Asia? |
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9 Non-Traditional Security Cooperation and Northeast Asian Regional Order |
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10 Power Bumps on the Way to Regional Community: Asia's Mixed Security Logics |
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| Conclusion: A Post-US Regional Order in the Making? East Asia's Security Futures |
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Frans-Paul van der Putten |
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Elena Atanassova-Cornelis |
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Jaewoo Choo, Kyung Hee University, Korea Alexis Littlefield, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan Larry Niksch, independent researcher Shi Yinhong, Renmin University of China in Beijing, China Robert Sutter George Washington University, USA Carlyle A. Thayer, University of New South Wales, Australia Quansheng Zhao, University in Washington, USA Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, University of Kent, UK Frans-Paul van der Putten, Clingendael, The Netherlands Nick Bisley, La Trobe, Australia Kuniko Ashizawa, American University, USA Alice D. Ba, American University, USA
