Emerging Strategic Trends In Asia
About the Book
There is little doubt that Asia – stretching from the Eurasian landmass to the maritime reaches of Australia and the South Pacific – is experiencing a major shift in the global balance of power. Expressions like the ‘Indo-Pacific’ and ‘Asia-Pacific’, contested they maybe, capture Asia’s expanse and dynamism. A power shift from the West to the East is well under way. But what is not understood is how this global re-distribution of political, economic and military power will impact global and regional geopolitical order. IR experts warn that power transitions of this magnitude can prove to be destabilizing. The argument that the world is interdependent to an unprecedented degree offers some hope that the transitions to new world order may turn out to be peaceful. Interestingly, these changes are also changing the mindset of the people who are pushing for political reforms and accountability. The chapters in this edited volume take a measure of these changes and try to understand their impact on peace and stability.
About the Editor
Uttam Kumar Sinha is a Fellow at IDSA and holds an adjunct position at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, Banaras Hindu University. At IDSA, he is the Managing Editor of Strategic Analysis (Routledge). He has been a Chevening Gurukul Fellow at the LSE and a CSCAP-India representative for the study group on water resources security.
Preface
— Yan Xuetong
Contributors
Introduction
SECTION I
ASIA’S GEOPOLITICAL FUTURE
1. Power Transition in Asia
— Takenori Horimoto
2. Restless Giants: Asia’s New Geopolitics
— Michael Wesley
SECTION II
MILITARY TRENDS IN ASIA
3. Chinese Military Expansion and Asian States’ Reaction
— Fumio Ota
4. What’s Driving Asian Aircraft Carrier Programmes?
The Case of China
— Andrew Scobell and Cortez Cooper
5. Vietnam Naval Modernisation: Causes and Trends
— Nguyen Hung Son
6. India’s Military: Modernising not Militarising
— Prakash Menon
SECTION III
ECONOMIC GLOBAL SHIFTS TOWARD ASIA
7. Economic Shift Towards Asia: Realities and Challenges
— Hu Shisheng
8. India and China: The Benefits of Co-opetition
— Rajat Kathuria, Samridhi Bimal and Devyani Pande
9. India and China in Global Value Chains: Taiwanese Investors’ Perspectives
— Kristy Hsu
SECTION IV
RESOURCE STRESS IN ASIA
10. Energy Security Challenges Under Limited Resource Pressure in Asia
— Bobby A. Tamaela Wattimena
11. India’s Resource Economy: Possible Choices and Probable Outcomes
— Yashika Singh and Shamika Joshi
12. Why Water Politics Matter
— Mukul Sanwal
13. Water Security in China
— Huang Ying
SECTION V
OCEAN GOVERNANCE IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
14. Time to Discipline the Sea Lawyers
— Anup Singh
15. Chinese Response to Maritime Disorder in the Indo-Pacific Region
— You Ji
16. Quest for Effective Ocean Management in the South China Sea
— T. Lan Anh Nguyen
SECTION VI
ASSESSING RISKS: CYBER AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
17. Risk and Resilience: International Approaches to Vulnerable Infrastructure Protection
— Tim Legrand and Saskia Hufnagel
18. Use of Lethal Force and Military Aid to Civil Power in India and Australia: Sharing Lessons in Counter Terrorism
— Simon Bronitt and Ashutosh Misra
Index
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