From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region
In: Global Political Transitions Ser.
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in an Emerging Strategic Space -- The Indo-Pacific: Emerging World Region or Strategic Construct? -- Perspectives on Diplomacy -- The Contributions to This Volume -- References -- The Asia-Pacific's 'Age of Uncertainty': Great Power Competition, Globalisation and the Economic-Security Nexus -- Context: Our Age of Uncertainty -- Great Power Competition and International Order -- Globalisation and Deeper Power Shifts -- The Economic-Security Nexus -- The Economic Foundations of Hegemony -- China's 'Connectivity Power' -- Globalisation's Discontents -- Conclusion -- References -- Economic Diplomacy and Diplomatic Economists in the Asia-Pacific -- International Economic Diplomacy -- International Economic Theory -- Structural Changes and Their Implications -- Changing Trade Patterns -- Socio-Economic and Demographic Change -- Technology -- Climate Change -- Impacts on Economic Diplomacy -- Anti-Globalisation -- The Trade War -- US Policies -- China Policies -- The Tech War -- The Financial War -- The COVID-19 Pandemic -- Impacts on the Region -- Third Countries -- New Zealand and APEC -- America's Rebalancing Towards the Asia-Pacific in Retrospect and Prospect -- Introduction -- Asia as the 'Secondary Theatre' -- The Pivot to Asia -- Trump's Asia Policy -- China and the New Foreign Policy Paradigm -- Asia Policy in a New Administration -- Conclusion -- References -- China's Evolving Asia-Pacific Policy: From Asserting Chinese Interests to Coping with the Indo-Pacific Challenge -- Introduction -- Asserting Chinese National Interests in the Asia-Pacific -- Conflict with Japan -- Rising Tensions in the South China Sea -- Sino-South Korean Conflict.