Asia-Pacific in the New World Order / Edition 1

by Christopher Brook, Anthony McGrew

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415172714
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Open University Pacific Studies Course Series
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brook, Christopher; McGrew, Anthony

Table of Contents

Part 1 Evolution 1 Pacific ties: the United States of America and an emerging pacific community? 2 From imperialism to the end of the cold war 3 The rise of the Asia-Pacific Part 2 The new regional order 4 The Asia-Pacific: what'sort of region in what'sort of world? 5 The Asia-Pacific security order 6 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: Japan 7 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: the Peoples Republic of China 8 Restructuring foreign and defence policy : the USA, 9 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: strategic uncertainty and the Asia-Pacific middle powers 10 Restructuring foreign and defence policy: the Pacific Islands Part 3 A pacific community ? 11 Regionalism and globalism 12 The growth of intergovernmental collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region 13 Regional co-operation: the transnational dimension 14 The European Union and the Asia-Pacific 15 The Asia-Pacific: what kind of challenge?

Editorial Reviews

'Combining a broad historical and theoretical framework with country-specific and issue-specific empirical studies; this multi-authored volume is by far the best, most stimulating contribution to our thinking about the Asia-Pacific challenge in the post-Cold War era. It offers a prime text for courses in international relations in general and east Asian or Asia-Pacific international relations in particular' - Samuel S Kim, East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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