The Indo-Pacific and Eurasia

Lessons from Regional Security Complex Theory
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-39603-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Rethinking Asia and International Relations

What does it mean to speak of the ‘Indo-Pacific’? Is it a cohesive region, a mega-region, or merely an expansive amalgamation of smaller regions? How relevant is the concept of regional security in a world increasingly defined by global complexities, shifting alliances, and transnational tools of power and coercion? Can geographical proximity still be considered a reliable determinant of security in the 21st century?

This volume examines these questions through a rigorous audit of Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT).  It examines which aspects of the theory remain robust, which require revision, and which should be discarded altogether. By situating RSCT within the dynamic contexts of the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia, the expert contributors offer a fresh perspective on regional security.

With a unique focus and interdisciplinary approach, this book offers critical insights for academics, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the shifting dynamics of global security. It is an essential resource for those engaged in international relations, security studies, strategic studies, and area studies, including China studies, East Asian studies, Southeast Asian studies, South Asian studies, Pacific studies, and Middle Eastern studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacon, Paul

Gray, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Introduction and Theoretical Framing 1. Introduction 2. Regional Security Complex Theory: An Introduction to Key Approaches, Definitions and Debates Section II: The Indo-Pacific Security Constellation 3. The Indo-Pacific as a Macrosecuritized Constellation: Revising Regional Security Complex Theory for the Age of the Indo-Pacific 4. Hedging, inter-regionalism and the Indo-Pacific macrosecuritization: why the Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian regional security complexes have not merged 5. The East Asian and South Asian regional security complexes and BRI: economic penetration without merger 6. New Zealand’s Indo-Pacific vs. Blue Pacific dilemma: A Regional Security Complex Theory interpretation of New Zealand’s evolving foreign policy Section III: Continental Eurasia and RSCT 7. The Problems with ‘Insulators’: Türkiye and Afghanistan in Regional Security Complex Theory 8. ‘We Are Not Anybody’s Backyard’: Central Asia’s Maturing Regional Security Complex 9. Region-ness and Insulator States in Regional Security Complex Theory: The Southeast Asian (Sub)Complex and Beyond Section IV: The ‘EUralAtlantic’ 10. Europe's New Security Disorder: Change in the European Security Complex 11. The ‘Indivisibility’ of Europe and the Indo-Pacific: Macrosecuritisation and Interregional Security 12. A Subcomplex at the Heart of the EUral-Atlantic Complex: Rethinking the Baltic States’ Position in Regional Security Section V: The Middle East RSC 13. Recalibrating Regional Security: Techno-Economic Penetration and Multi-Vectorism in the Gulf 14. Merging Sub-Complexes of the ‘Regional Security Complex’ and the Expansion of the ‘Tacit Security Regime’ in the Middle East 15. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Bacon has been a Professor of International Relations in the Faculty of International Research and Education at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, for twenty years. His areas of research expertise include the EU as an Indo-Pacific actor, and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific. He has authored or co-authored more than forty refereed publications, including five Routledge research monographs, and articles in leading and respected journals such as International Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, Pacific Review, Asian Security and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. He is the Secretary and co-founder of the General Expert Standing Group on EU-Japan Relations and has been involved in numerous EU and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research projects, including four Jean Monnet Networks, and two Marie Sklodowska-Curie projects. He has also received targeted funding for professionally commissioned project research from the European Commission, NATO, and the foreign ministries of Germany, Norway and the UK.

Matthew Gray is a professor at the School of International Liberal Studies (SILS), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, where his teaching and research focus on the politics, political economy, and international relations of the modern Middle East. Prior to taking up this position in September 2016, he was based at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia from 2005 to 2016, and also worked in various roles across trade, defence, and immigration with the Australian government from 1997 to 2005. He is the author of four books on the contemporary Middle East: Conspiracy Theories in the Middle East: Sources and Politics (Routledge, 2010), Qatar: Politics and the Challenges of Development (Lynne Rienner, 2013), Global Security Watch – Saudi Arabia (Praeger, 2014) and The Economies of the Gulf States (Agenda, 2019). He is also the author of more than thirty refereed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, and propounded the influential theory of ‘late rentierism’ in Middle Eastern studies.