Overview

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of US foreign policy throughout the Indo-Pacific. Home to around 60 percent of the world’s population; most of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies; around half of the world’s states with full nuclear capabilities; and a complicated web of unresolved tensions, disputes, and conflicts, the Indo-Pacific is arguably the most diverse, dynamic, and contested region on Earth. US strategy there has evolved over centuries, with its physical presence going broadly unchallenged since at least the middle of the last century. However, the rapid development and expanding influence of China – alongside the growth of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and others – as well as political and economic crises and disruptions within the United States itself, mean that in recent times the US has come to occupy a newly uncertain position and perceive a range of highly unfamiliar challenges. To explore how the US has managed, and continues to manage, its regional history, and how it approaches the modern-day landscape of an Indo-Pacific only recently normalised within international political discourse, the book contains 33 newly commissioned chapters from leading experts in the field. It does so partly with help from the more traditional realms of International Relations theory as well as more critical realms. It also unpacks US policy and strategy as it pertains to regional governments, states, and multilateral institutions, as well as to pressing issues including inter-state security, human rights, trade, artificial intelligence, and cyber strategy. It does so in four parts: History of the US in the Indo-Pacific Theorising US Policy and Presence in the Indo-Pacific The US and Indo-Pacific States and Institutions The US and Indo-Pacific Issues The book is designed to be of interest to students and scholars of the US in the Indo-/Asia Pacific; the international relations of the Indo-/Asia Pacific; and US foreign policy.

Full Product Details

Author:   Oliver Turner (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Nicola Nymalm (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden.) ,  Wali Aslam (Associate Professor, University of Bath, UK.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:  

9780367863142

ISBN 10:   0367863146
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction SECTION ONE: History of the US in the Indo-Pacific 1. The United States in the Indo-Pacific before World War II: Trends, Strategic Thinking, and Diplomatic Realities 2. World War Two and the Post-War ‘New Order’ in the Indo-Pacific 3. US Grand Strategy in Asia SECTION TWO: Theorising US policy and presence in the Indo-Pacific 4. ‘Asian’ International Relations Theory: Theorizing Difference, Speaking Back from the Indo-Pacific, and Alternative Imaginaries of US Indo-Pacific Policy 5. The Racial Dimensions of US Foreign Relations in the Indo-Pacific 6. Power and Hegemony in the Indo-Pacific: A Postcolonial View 7. West Meets East: Constructivism and American Policy in the Indo-Pacific 8. Poststructuralism and US Discourses of the Indo-Pacific 9. Gender and US Foreign and Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific 10. Explaining the US presence in the Indo-Pacific: Marxist-Gramscian-Kautskyian approaches 11. Realist Theories and US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific 12. The Liberal Paradigm and U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific SECTION THREE: The US and Indo-Pacific states and institutions 13. US foreign policy towards China 14. The US, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific 15. The US and North Korea: The Nuclear Problem that Refuses to Go Away 16. Alliance asymmetries and the challenges of balancing security and democracy: US relations with the Republic of Korea 17. The United States and Taiwan: Foundations and challenges of the One China Policy 18. The Philippines in the United States’ Indo-Pacific Grand Strategies: From Strategic Rebalancing to Strategic Competition 19. Less is More: US Engagement with Indonesia (1945-2021) 20. US-Myanmar/Burma Policy 21. US relations with Sri Lanka: A Case of Impulsiveness, Missed Opportunities and Strategic Competition 22. The Evolution of American Foreign Policy Toward India 23. Misaligned expectations and broken promises: United States foreign policy approach towards Pakistan (1947-2021) 24. US Engagement with Australia: ‘No better friend’? 25. The United States and ASEAN: Bilateralism and Regionalism in a Changing Asia SECTION FOUR: The US and Indo-Pacific issues 26. The Pursuit of Primacy: US Security Policy in Indo-Pacific 27. US regional economic policy in the Indo-Pacific 28. Congress, Domestic Politics and Contemporary US Policy in the Indo-Pacific 29. US Nuclear Strategy in the Indo-Pacific (1945-2021) 30. The Role of Democracy and Human Rights in U.S. Indo-Pacific Policy (1945-2021) 31. US concerns regarding the Belt and Road Initiative 32. US Cyber Strategy in the Indo-Pacific 33. The US, Indo-Pacific, AI and Emerging Security Technologies

Reviews

"""The volume is a collection of comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced analyses of US policy in the Indo-Pacific by top-notch experts. A must reading for students and practitioners of American foreign policy and Indo-Pacific affairs."" - Chung-in Moon, Chairman of the Sejong Institute and Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University ""In the 2020s, the United States is staking its credibility on the stabilising role it plays in a region defined as the Indo-Pacific. This book brings an exceptional diversity of global scholarship to bear on understanding the many dimensions and long pedigree of America's Indo-Pacific policies, which are about much more than the military balancing of China."" - Rory Medcalf, Professor and Head, National Security College, Australian National University, and author of Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region. ""A timely and valuable contribution to understanding how the idea of the Indo-Pacific is taking shape as a normalised region, and how it has become enveloped into the dominant geopolitical rivalries of our era. This Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives and voices, and covers issues, actors, and methodological approaches that help to uncover the nature and significance of America's role in the evolution of this construct."" - Rosemary Foot, Professor Emerita, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford."

The volume is a collection of comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced analyses of US policy in the Indo-Pacific by top-notch experts. A must reading for students and practitioners of American foreign policy and Indo-Pacific affairs. - Chung-in Moon, Chairman of the Sejong Institute and Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University In the 2020s, the United States is staking its credibility on the stabilising role it plays in a region defined as the Indo-Pacific. This book brings an exceptional diversity of global scholarship to bear on understanding the many dimensions and long pedigree of America's Indo-Pacific policies, which are about much more than the military balancing of China. - Professor Rory Medcalf, Head, National Security College, Australian National University, and author of Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region. A timely and valuable contribution to understanding how the idea of the Indo-Pacific is taking shape as a normalised region, and how it has become enveloped into the dominant geopolitical rivalries of our era. This Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives and voices, and covers issues, actors, and methodological approaches that help to uncover the nature and significance of America's role in the evolution of this construct. - Rosemary Foot

The volume is a collection of comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced analyses of US policy in the Indo-Pacific by top-notch experts. A must reading for students and practitioners of American foreign policy and Indo-Pacific affairs. - Chung-in Moon, Chairman of the Sejong Institute and Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University In the 2020s, the United States is staking its credibility on the stabilising role it plays in a region defined as the Indo-Pacific. This book brings an exceptional diversity of global scholarship to bear on understanding the many dimensions and long pedigree of America's Indo-Pacific policies, which are about much more than the military balancing of China. - Professor Rory Medcalf, Head, National Security College, Australian National University, and author of Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region. A timely and valuable contribution to understanding how the idea of the Indo-Pacific is taking shape as a normalised region, and how it has become enveloped into the dominant geopolitical rivalries of our era. This Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives and voices, and covers issues, actors, and methodological approaches that help to uncover the nature and significance of America's role in the evolution of this construct. - Professor Emerita Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

Author Information

Oliver Turner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Nicola Nymalm is Assistant Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (FHS) and an Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm. Wali Aslam is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the University of Bath, UK.

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