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This edited volume addresses geo-economic strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific, exploring both the theoretical and thematic contours of this concept and issue-specific dynamics in the areas of finance, trade, energy, and technology competition. Chapters focus on the impact of renewed great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region across these four areas. Each addresses central concerns for the future of the global economic order and offers a lens to understand interstate competition in light of the geopolitical shifts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by an international panel of experts, this volume provides a cohesive view of the region's most pressing issues. As such, it will be relevant to scholars specializing in Indo-Pacific domestic politics and foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, middle powers, China-U.S. relations, China-EU relations, Asia-Pacific developments, international security, international political economy, and emerging markets.
List of contents
Middle Power Economic Statecraft in a World of Geoeconomic Competition.- Pseudo Institutions:A Comparative Analysis of China's BRI and the US-led B3W.- Middle Powers and Institutional Design:A Case Study of the CPTPP and DEPA.- EU's Geoeconomic Strategy in the Indo-Pacific.- Between Big-push (quantity) and Bankability (quality):Geoeconomics of Infrastructure Financing in the Indo-Pacific.- Geo-economics of the Chinese Shipping Industry:Building Maritime Commercial Power from Bust to Boom,2008-2021.- The U.S-China Strategic Competition and Korea's Economic Statecraft:Combining Bilateral and Regional Strategies.- Vietnamese Geoeconomics in a Polarized Global Economy:Understanding Bamboo Diplomacy and its Viability.- Establishing Multilateral and Regional Rules on Digital Trade:The Role of Japan and Middle Powers.- South Korea's Renewable Energy Odyssey:A Failed Attempt at Carbon Neutral Growth without Nuclear Energy.
About the author
Vinod K. Aggarwal is Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies, Travers Department of Political Science; Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); Affiliated Professor at the Haas School of Business; and Fellow, Public Law and Policy Program, Berkeley Law, all at the University of California at Berkeley.
Margaret Kenney is Assistant Director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center and a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
