From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region
Robert G. Patman, Patrick Köllner, Balazs Kiglics, 9811670064, 978-9811670060, 9789811670060, B09MLVDGQ4, 978-981-16-7006-0, 978-981-16-7007-7
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.