1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition
The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition is a comprehensive, pioneering, and interdisciplinary guide of this re-emerging field.
Offering a team of cutting-edge researchers in the field, it advances an analytical framework of great power competition. It surveys the major theories (mainstream and critical theories), actors (state, quasi-state, and non-state actors), mechanisms (military, economic, and ideational influence mechanisms), and domains (territorial and borderless domains) pertaining to contemporary great power competition.
This Handbook will be an essential text for scholars and students of international relations, security studies, global governance, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to global policy makers and practitioners who are required to observe contemporary great power competition.
Introduction
1. Great Power Competition: An Analytical Framework
Brian C. H. Fong
Part 1: Theories, Actors, and Mechanisms
2. Mainstream Theories
Yuan-kang Wang
3. Critical Theories
Annette Freyberg-Inan
4. Actors
Chong Ja Ian
5. Military Influence Mechanisms
Michael Roi and Peter Lyon
6. Economic Influence Mechanisms
Ho-fung Hung
7. Ideational Influence Mechanisms
Ville Sinkkonen
Part 2: Territorial Domains
8. East Asia
Yves-Heng Lim
9. Southeast Asia
Kei Koga
10. South Asia
BM Jain
11. Central Asia
Fabienne Bossuyt
12. Oceania
Denghua Zhang
13. Middle East and North Africa
Imad Mansour
14. Sub-Saharan Africa
Ching-Ting Chen and Syuan-Siang Wang
15. Central and Eastern Europe
Elias Götz
16. Latin America and Caribbean
Dennis Canterbury
17. Arctic
Marc Lanteigne
18. Antarctica
Klaus Dodds
19. High Seas
Geoffrey F. Gresh
Part 3: Borderless Domains
20. Global Supply Chains
Philip Rogers
21. Cyberspace
Francis C. Domingo
22. Outer Space
John Hickman
23. International Institutions
Anna Hayes
Conclusion
24. The Future of Great Power Competition
Thomas F. Lynch III
Biography
Brian C. H. Fong is Full Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Chong Ja Ian is Associate Professor in Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore.
“Leading international relations scholars Brian Fong and Ja Ian Chong have edited a scholarly tour de force surveying one of the most important, enduring academic and policy issues. They and their well-chosen contributors elucidate today’s latest resurgence of great power competition around the world and in frontier domains. Read now, keep ready for reference!”
Andrew S. Erickson, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College, USA
"This thoughtfully compiled edited volume offers a thorough and eclectic analysis of the theory and praxis of US-China great power competition. The volume offers a thought-provoking overview of one of the central issues of international politics, and will be of use to scholars and practitioners alike."
Courtney J. Fung, Macquarie University, Australia
“An essential compendium of the diverse ways great power competition can unfold and how can we make sense of its various dimensions. This contribution could not be more timely.”
T. H. Hall, Director, University of Oxford China Centre, University of Oxford, UK
“Once seen as a field in decline, the study of Great Power Competition is back on the agenda of IR and security studies. This well-crafted Handbook re-appraises, updates, and advances the thinking on the subject in two ways. One, it offers a clear conceptual framework to study Great Power competition that accounts for the various actors, mechanisms, and domains where a new era of post-Cold War struggles for Great Power influence have been unfolding. Two, it offers an avowedly global account of the resurgence of this competition through a set of well-researched and intriguing cases. Written in a clear and effective style, the Handbook will be a helpful starting point for students and a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners.”
Deepak Nair, Australian National University, Australia
