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"This thought-provoking study questions the prevailing narrative on US-China relations, of inevitable conflict between the two giants. It offers a fresh perspective, suggesting that the institutionalised competition, guided by strategic foresight and restraint, may actually foster stability and peace during the international order transition"-- Provided by publisher.
List of contents
1. International Order Transition and US-China Competition: Beyond the Thucydides Trap; 2. Institutional Peace Theory: Institutionalizing US-China Competition; 3. Institutional Balancing in the Security Sub-order: Building a New Co-existent Security Architecture; 4. Institutional Balancing in the Economic Sub-order: Beyond the Spaghetti Bowl Effect; 5. Institutional Balancing in the Political Sub-order: Keeping the Political Diversity for Peace; 6. Building Institutional Peace in the Asia Pacific in the 21st Century.
About the author
Kai He is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. He served as a non-resident Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2022–2023), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017–2020), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009–2010).Huiyun Feng is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her latest co-authored books include After Hedging (with Kai He, Cambridge Elements in IR, 2023) and Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (with Steve Chan, Wenxin Hu, and Kai He, 2022).
Summary
This thought-provoking study questions the prevailing narrative on US–China relations, of inevitable conflict between the two giants. It offers a fresh perspective, suggesting that the institutionalised competition, guided by strategic foresight and restraint, may actually foster stability and peace during the international order transition.
Foreword
An argument for the possible positive effects of the institutionalised US–Chinese competition for stability and peace in the Asia-Pacific.
