1st Edition
Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies
This handbook explores the significance of the Indo-Pacific in world politics. It shows how the re-emergence of the Indo-Pacific in international relations has fundamentally changed the approach to politics, economics and security.
The volume:
- explores the themes related to trade, politics and security for better understanding of the Indo-Pacific and the repercussions of the region's emergence
- studies different security and political issues in the region: military competition, maritime governance, strategic alliances and rivalries, and international conflicts
- analyses various socio-economic dimensions of the Indo-Pacific, such as political systems, cultural and religious contexts, and trade and financial systems
- examines the strategies of various states, such as the United States, Japan, India and China, and their approaches towards the Indo-Pacific
- covers the role of middle powers and small states in detail
Interdisciplinary in approach and with essays from authors from around the world, this volume will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students in the fields of international relations, politics and Asian studies.
Introduction
Barbara Kratiuk
Part I: Theory of Indo-Pacific
1. Understanding Indo-Pacific: Historical Context and Evolving Dynamics
Shankari Sundararaman
2. Understanding Indo-Pacific in geopolitical context
Stefano Pelaggi, Lorenzo Termine
Part II: Socio-economic issues
3. Political Economy of Indo-Pacific Development
Karina Jedrzejowska
4. Trade Regionalism in the Indo-Pacific
Anna Wrobel
5. Impact of religion on the international relations in the Indo-Pacific
Aleksandra Jaskolska
6. Authoritarian Regimes and their Evolution in the Indo-Pacific
Jeroen Van den Bosch
7. Democracy in Indo-Pacific
Bhaswati Sarkar
8. Connectivity Strategies in Indo-Pacific and its Geopolitical Implications
Gulshan Sachdeva
Part III: Political and Security issues
9. Military Power as an instrument of international politics in the Indo-Pacific
Rafał Wiśniewski
10. Energy security in the Indo-Pacific
Rafal Ulatowski
11. Dynamics of Environmental Security in the Indo-Pacific
Jayati Srivastava
12. Strategic alliances and alignments in Indo-Pacific
Barbara Kratiuk
13. Strategic rivalries in Indo-Pacific: Contest, Claims and Conflicts
Astha Chadha
14. International conflicts in the Indo-Pacific region
Przemysław Osiewicz
15. Maritime governance in Indo-Pacific: The European Conceptualization
Tomasz Łukaszuk
Part IV – Indo-Pacific strategies
16. The United States in the Indo-Pacific: An Overstretched Hegemon?
Yoichiro Sato
17. Chinese Conceptions of the Indo-Pacific: The Impact of Identity and History
Chris Ogden and Catherine Jones
18. India’s Tryst with “Indo-Pacific”
Jittendra Uttam
19. Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Free and Open Indo-Pacific as International Public Goods
Yoshimatsu Hidetaka
20. The EU and the Indo-Pacific: The Path Towards a Comprehensive Strategy
Andrea Carteny and Elena Tosti Di Stefano
21. Middle powers in the Indo-Pacific
Tran Phuong Thao
22. Small powers in the Indo-Pacific: Strategies, Opportunities and Challenges
Paolo Pizzolo and Stefano Pelaggi
Biography
Barbara Kratiuk currently works at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch currently works as an editor and project coordinator at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Aleksandra Jaskólska currently works at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Yoichiro Sato currently teaches at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
