From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific (eBook)

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.

Robert G. Patman is one of the University of Otago's inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chairs, and his research interests concern international relations, global security, US foreign policy, great powers, and the Horn of Africa. Publications include Strategic Shortfall: The 'Somalia Syndrome' and the March to 9/11 (Praeger, 2010) and co-edited books titled China and the International System: Becoming a World Power (Routledge, 2013); Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn? (World Scientific, 2015); and New Zealand and the World: Past, Present and Future (World Scientific, 2018).  He is currently writing a volume called Rethinking the Global Impact of 9/11 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Patrick Köllner is Vice President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and Professor of political science at the University of Hamburg. His Asia-related and comparative work has been published in journals such as Democratization, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of East Asian Studies, The Pacific Review, and Politische Vierteljahresschrift. Recent co-edited publications include Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford University Press, 2018) as well as special issues on think tanks in East Asia (Pacific Affairs, 2018) and on political transformation in Myanmar (Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2020).

Balazs Kiglics is a recent Ph.D. graduate and Teaching Fellow in the Languages and Cultures Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His thesis explored the role of values in contemporary Japanese elite perceptions of Japan-China relations. He has worked as Coordinator of the annual Otago Foreign Policy School since 2015. He has co-edited the volume New Zealand and the World: Past, Present and Future (World Scientific, 2018).  His research interests include Japanese studies, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and intercultural communication.

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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.