From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific

Robert G. Patman is one of the University of Otago’s inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chairs, and his research interests concern international relations, US foreign policy, great powers, and the Horn of Africa. Publications include Strategic Shortfall: The ‘Somalia Syndrome’ and the March to 9/11 and co-edited books titled China and the International System: Becoming a World Power; Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn; New Zealand and the World: Past, Present and Future. Robert is currently writing a volume called Rethinking the Global Impact of 9/11. 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. Recent publications include coedited special issues on think tanks in East Asia (Pacific Affairs, 2018) and political transformation in Myanmar (Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2020), the co-edited volume Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross- Regional Applications (Oxford University Press, 2018) and an article on Australia and New Zealand’s changing China policies (The Pacific Review, 2021). 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 also coordinates the annual Otago Foreign Policy School and Otago National Security School. Balazs has co-edited the volume New Zealand and the World: Past, Present and Future. His research interests include Japanese and Chinese studies, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and intercultural communication.

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.