International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. He is also co-editor of The Pacific Review, Senior Research Fellow at The Wong MNC Center in San Francisco and Associate Research Fellow at the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) in Milan. His research focuses on China's changing domestic political economy, and the impact of China's rise on the nature of the global order. He also has a side interest in comparative studies of regional integration processes. His latest book, China Risen? Studying Chinese Global Power will be published by Bristol University Press in March 2022.

VOLUME 1: THEORISING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS The Balance of Power, Globalization, and Democracy: International Relations Theory in Northeast Asia - Stephan Haggard Area Studies and Discipline Area Studies, Regional Studies, and International Relations - Peter J. Katzenstein Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies During and After the Cold War - Bruce Cumings A Disaster in the Making: Rational Choice and Asian Studies - Chalmers Johnson and E.B. Keehn State, Social Forces, and Regions in Historical Time: Toward A Critical Political Economy of Eastern Asia - Mitchell Bernard Exceptionalism or Universalism? The Asianisation of Asia - Yoichi Funabashi Getting Asia Wrong: The Need For New Analytical Frameworks - David C. Kang How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism - Amitav Acharya A Liberal Peace in Asia? - Benjamin Goldsmith Economics and Politics Does Hegemony Matter?: The Reorganization of the Pacific Political Economy - Donald Crone Studying China in An Era of Globalisation - Shaun Breslin Institutional Balancing and International Relations Theory: Economic Interdependence and Balance of Power Strategies in Southeast Asia - Kai He Constructivist Alternatives Realism and Constructivism in Southeast Asian Security Studies Today: A Review Essay - Sorpong Peou Set for Stability? Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict in East Asia - Thomas Berger The Long Peace of ASEAN - Timo Kivimaeki VOLUME 2: SECURITY Overviews Asian Practice of Security: Key Features and Explanations - Muthiah Alagappa The Geography of the Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-First Century - Robert Ross Actors and Alliances The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia Right through 2020 - Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye Why is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism - Christopher Hemmer and Peter J. Katzenstein China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order - David S. Shambaugh, Japan's Policy Towards East and Southeast Asia: Trends in Re-Asianisation - Lalima Varma New Security Issues Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Expert Analysis, Myopia and Fantasy - Natasha Hamilton-Hart Non Traditional Security in Asia: The Many Faces of Securitisation - Mely Caballero-Anthony Between a Hegemon and a Hard Place: The War on Terror and Southeast Asian-US Relations - David Capie Challenges to Security Japan's shifting security trajectory and policy system - Christopher W. Hughes The South China Sea: ASEAN's Security Concerns About China - Liselotte Odgaard The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and US Strategy in Northeast Asia - Gilbert Rozman Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy Toward East Asia - Thomas J. Christensen China's 'Peaceful Rise' to Great Power Status - Bijian Zheng VOLUME 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT Asian Model(s) The Japanese 'Miracle' - Chalmers Johnson Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese: Regionalization, Hierarchy, and the Industrialization of East Asia - Mitchell Barnard and John Ravenhill The Theory of the Flying Geese Pattern of Development and Its Interpretations - Pekka Korhonen Confucian Capitalism: Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Chinese Enterprise - Souchou Yao Debating the Asian Model Overview: Making of A Miracle - World Bank The Myth of Asia's Miracle - Paul Krugman Alternative Perspectives on Late Industrialization in East Asia: A Critical Survey - Paul Burkett and Martin Hart-Landsberg Crisis Management An Explanation of the 1997 Asian Crash - Francois Godement Institutions and Investors: The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia - Andrew MacIntyre The East Asian Crash and the Wall Street-IMF Complex - Robert Wade and Frank Veneroso Was IMF-Imposed Economic Regime Change in Korea Justified? The Political Economy of IMF Intervention - James Crotty and Lee Kang-kook Rethinking the Model What ever happened to the East Asian Developmental State? The Unfolding Debate - Richard Stubbs Rethinking the Southeast Asian Development Model: Bringing Ethical and Governance Questions In - Richard Higgott and Helen Nesadurai The Beijing Consensus: Notes on the New Physics of Chinese Power - Joshua Cooper Ramo What Happened to the Japanese Model - Ulrike Schaede VOLUME 4: REGIONS AND REGIONALISM What Region/Where Is Asia/Where Did It Come From The Weight of History - Mark Beeson ASEAN's Inheritance: The Regionalization of Southeast Asia, 1941 - 61 - Phillip Charrier Asia Pacific studies in an age of global modernity - Arif Dirlik Approaches and Dynamics Regionalism and Asia - Peter J. Katzenstein New Regionalism in Historical Perspective - Shaun Breslin and Richard Higgott Beyond Network Power? The Dynamics of Formal Economic Integration in Northeast Asia - Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia - Samuel S. Kim Networking the Region? The Emergence and Impact of Asia-Pacific Bilateral Free Trade Agreement Projects - Christopher Dent Non State Regional Governance Mechanisms For Economic Security: The Case Of The ASEAN People's Assembly - Mely Caballero-Anthony Competing regions/Evolving Regions? ASEAN and regional governance after the Cold War: from regional order to regional community? - Helen Nesadurai Competing Conceptions Of Economic Regionalism: APEC Versus EAEC in the Asia Pacific - Richard Higgott and Richard Stubbs Understanding China's Regional Rise: Interpretations, Identities and Implications - Shaun Breslin ASEAN Plus Three: Towards A New Age Of Pan-East Asian Regionalism? A Skeptic's Appraisal - Markus Hund The Race to Connect East Asia: An Unending Steeplechase - T.J. Pempel In Medias Res: The Development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as a Security Community - Marc Lanteigne