From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world’s economic and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising powers compete with each other. As a strategic space, the Indo-Pacific reflects the rise of geo-political and geo-economic designs and dynamics which have come to shape the region in the early twenty-first century. These new dynamics contrast with the (neo-)liberal ideas and the seemingly increasing globalisation for which the once dominant ‘Asia-Pacific’ regional label stood.

Chapter 1: Introduction: From Asia–Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in an Emerging Strategic Space.- Chapter 2: The Asia-Pacific’s ‘Age of Uncertainty’: Great Power Competition, Globalisation and the Economic–Security Nexus.- Chapter 3: Economic Diplomacy and Diplomatic Economists in the Asia–Pacific.- Chapter 4: America’s Rebalancing towards the Asia–Pacific in Retrospect and Prospect.- Chapter 5: China’s Evolving Asia–Pacific Policy: From Asserting Chinese Interests to Coping with the Indo-Pacific Challenge.- Chapter 6: Japan’s Asia–Pacific Diplomacy in the Twenty-first Century: Empty Rhetoric or a New Paradigm?.- Chapter 7: Narendra Modi and the Remaking of Indian Diplomacy.- Chapter 8: Australia’s and New Zealand’s South Pacific Diplomacy: Seeking to Balance China’s Regional Engagement.- Chapter 9: Navigating the ‘New Normal’: New Zealand Track II Diplomacy and the Shifting Dynamics in Asia.- Chapter 10: The Rise of New-Generation Foreign Policy Think Tanks in India: Causes, Contours and Roles.- Chapter 11: Building ASEAN Identity through Regional Diplomacy.- Chapter 12: Confidence, Trust and Empathy: Threat Perception and the Prospects for Peace in Korea and the South China Sea.- Chapter 13: The End of the Golden Weather: New Zealand’s Trade Policy During a Time of International Transition.- Chapter 14: Democracy under Strain in the Philippines: The Populist Politics and Diplomacy of President Rodrigo Duterte.- Index.