Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America's bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forumssuch as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summithave taken precedence, engendering both cooperation and competition while reflecting the local concerns of the region.
Some are concerned that this process is moving toward less-inclusive, bloc-based "talking shops" and that the future direction and success of these arrangements, along with their implications for global and regional security and prosperity, remain unclear. The fifteen contributors to this volume, all leading scholars in the field, provide national perspectives on regional institutional architecture and their functional challenges. They illuminate areas of cooperation that will move the region toward substantive collaboration, convergence of norms, and strengthened domestic institutions. They also highlight the degree to which institution building in Asiaa region composed of liberal democracies, authoritarian regimes, and anachronistic dictatorshipshas become an arena for competition among major powers and conflicting norms, and assess the future shape of Asian security architecture.
- Contents
- Preface ix
- Abbreviations xi
- 1. Unbundling Asia’s New Multilateralism Bates Gill and Michael J. Green 1
- PART I National Strategies for Regionalism
- 2. Evolving U.S. Views on Asia’s Future Institutional Architecture Ralph A. Cossa 33
- 3. Chinese Perspectives on Building an East Asian Community in the Twenty- first Century Wu Xinbo 55
- 4. Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question Lim Wonhyuk 78
- 5. Japan’s Perspective on Asian Regionalism Akiko Fukushima 103
- 6. India and the Asian Security Architecture C. Raja Mohan 128
- 7. Australia’s Pragmatic Approach to Asian Regionalism Greg Sheridan 154
- 8. The Strong in the World of the Weak Southeast Asia in Asia’s Regional Architecture Amitav Acharya 172
- PART II The Functional Challenges
- 9. Emerging Economic Architecture in Asia Opening or Insulating the Region? Amy Searight 193
- 10. Norms and Regional Architecture Multilateral Institution Building in Asia and Its Impact on Governance and Democracy William Cole and Erik G. Jensen 243
- 11. Defense Issues and Asia’s Future Security Architecture Michael E. O’Hanlon 279
- 12. Nontraditional Security and Multilateralism in Asia Reshaping the Contours of Regional Security Architecture Mely Caballero-Anthony 306
- 13. Challenges to Building an Effective Asia- Pacific Security Architecture Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow 329
- Appendix. Selected List of Principal Regional Institutions in Asia 351
- Contributors 357
- Index 363
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