Asian Geopolitics and the US-China rivalry.

Abstract

This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People’s Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific. This book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and presents a new perspective by examining how great power politics are locally reinterpreted, conditioned or, at times, even contested. It illustrates the policy-level challenges which the US-China rivalry poses for established political and economic practices and outlines how these challenges can be best addressed by smaller states and their societies. A timely assessment of the power play in the Indo-Pacific with the angle of Sino-American rivalry, this book makes an important contribution to the study of Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies and Security Studies.