Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific
This book explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world.
With the Quad partnersAustralia, India, Japan and the United Statesseeing deteriorating ties with China, the book provides a holistic understanding of the reasons why Quad Plus matters and what it means for the post-COVID Indo-Pacific and Asian order. It goes beyond the existing literature of the global post-COVID reality and examines how Quad Plus can grow and find synergy with national and multilateral Indo-Pacific initiatives. The chapters analyse the mechanisms uncharacteristic yet active approach of including countries like South Korea, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand and ASEAN/Vietnam for their successful handling of the pandemic crisis, thereby reshaping the new worlds geopolitical vision.
A unique study focused solely on the intricacies and the broader dialogue of the Quad Plus narrative, the book caters to strategic audiences as well as academics researching international relations, politics, and Indo-Pacific and Asian studies.
Jagannath P. Panda is a research fellow and centre coordinator for East Asia at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. He is the series editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Dr Panda is an expert on China and Indo-Pacific security with a primary focus on East Asia: China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula.
Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs and director of the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers. Prior to these roles, he was the acting director and managing editor of Air University Press and the acting dean of the Air Force Research Institute.
Routledge Studies on Think Asia
Edited by Jagannath P. Panda, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India
This series addresses the current strategic complexities of Asia and forecasts how these current complexities will shape Asias future. Bringing together empirical and conceptual analysis, the series examines critical aspects of Asian politics, with a particular focus on the current security and strategic complexities. The series includes academic studies from universities, research institutes and think-tanks and policy oriented studies. Focusing on security and strategic analysis on Asias current and future trajectory, this series welcomes submissions on relationship patterns (bilateral, trilateral and multilateral) in Indo-Pacific, regional and sub-regional institutions and mechanisms, corridors and connectivity, maritime security, infrastructure politics, trade and economic models and critical frontiers (boundaries, borders, bordering provinces) that are crucial to Asias future.
URL: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-on-Think-Asia/bookseries/TA
Mongolia and Northeast Asian Security
Nuclear Proliferation, Environment, and Civilisational Confrontations
Edited by Alicia J. Campi and Jagannath P. Panda
Asian Geopolitics and the US-China Rivalry
Edited by Felix Heiduk
ASEAN and India-ASEAN Relations
Navigating Shifting Geopolitics
Edited by M. Mayilvaganan
Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific
The Changing Profile of International Relations
Edited by Jagannath P. Panda and Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell
Indo-Pacific Strategies
Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age
Edited by Brendon J. Cannon and Kei Hakata
China in Indias Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia
Chietigj Bajpaee
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Kenta Aoki is a research fellow at Middle East Institute of Japan (MEIJ), Tokyo, Japan. He taught at Ochanomizu University before joining MEIJ in 2019. His research primarily focuses on the Contemporary Politics in Afghanistan and Iran. His recent publications include Chabahar: The Fault-line in India-Japan Infrastructure Cooperation, in Jagannath P. Panda (ed.), Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025: Corridors, Connectivity and Contours (KW Publishers, 2020) and Afghan Local Police and Statebuilding, in Hybrid Statebuilding (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2019; in Japanese).
Jeffrey Becker directs the Center for Naval Analyses Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program. His recent work has focused on Chinas military as a global force, including Chinas military diplomacy, USChina military engagement, Chinas economic statecraft, and the security implications of Chinas expanding global presence. Dr. Beckers book Peasants to Protesters: Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labour Contention in Contemporary China was published in 2014 by Lexington Books. His more recent publications include Securing Chinas Lifelines Across the Indian Ocean (US Navy War College, 2020), and Chinas Presence in the Middle East and Western Indian Ocean: Beyond Belt and Road (CNA, 2019). Other peer-reviewed writings have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Naval War College Review.
Brendon Cannon is assistant professor of international security at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah, USA (2009). His research focuses on the nexus of international relations, security studies, and geopolitics. He has published on topics related to regional security and geopolitics, the arms industry, and shifting distributions of power across the Indo-Pacific. Cannons articles appear in Defence Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and Third World Quarterly. His forthcoming book, edited with Kei Hakata, is Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age
