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This book offers several European perspectives on Indo-Pacific dynamics by a set of internationally recognized experts who have collaborated in the Franco-German Observatory of the Indo-Pacific. The observatory was established in 2021 by the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg and has since come to include many scholars and institutions from both countries. The book speaks to and updates existing scholarly discussions on Indo-Pacific dynamics, investigating the nexus of order(ing) and agency in that strategic space. The authors take US-China strategic competition as a contextual given and explore the Indo-Pacific as an interregnum, in terms of institutional dynamics and in terms of geo-narratives. The book also offers several case studies of middle and small power agency in the Indo-Pacific, examining the cases of Australia and Japan, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, and of Pacific Island Countries. A final chapter explores the perspectives of Chinese scholars on the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.
List of contents
Introduction: Order(ing) and Agency in the Indo-Pacific: Analytical Issues and the Contributions of this Volume.- The Indo-Pacific Interregnum.- Multilateral Foundations and Minilateral Developments: Navigating Institutional Evolution and Cooperative Saturation in the Indo-Pacific.- Mapping Global Geoeconomics: Beyond Sino-Centrism and the Belt and Road Initiative.- Australia, Japan, and a Greater AUKUS .- India in the Indo-Pacific: Ordering at the Margins.- Vietnam and the Philippines: Neorealist/Liberal Internationalist Actorness and Middle Power Agency in the Indo-Pacific.- Small Powers Navigating Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual Perspectives and Evidence from Pacific Island Countries.- Europeans and the Indo-Pacific: Is there a Third Way between China and the United States?.- Facing a Balancing Coalition? Chinese Views of Indo-Pacific Strategies.
About the author
Delphine Allès is Professor of Political Science and Vice President of Inalco, Paris.
Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, and Professor at King’s College London.
Patrick Köllner is GIGA’s Vice President, Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Summary
This book offers several European perspectives on Indo-Pacific dynamics by a set of internationally recognized experts who have collaborated in the Franco-German Observatory of the Indo-Pacific. The observatory was established in 2021 by the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg and has since come to include many scholars and institutions from both countries. The book speaks to and updates existing scholarly discussions on Indo-Pacific dynamics, investigating the nexus of order(ing) and agency in that strategic space. The authors take US-China strategic competition as a contextual given and explore the Indo-Pacific as an interregnum, in terms of institutional dynamics and in terms of geo-narratives. The book also offers several case studies of middle and small power agency in the Indo-Pacific, examining the cases of Australia and Japan, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, and of Pacific Island Countries. A final chapter explores the perspectives of Chinese scholars on the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.
