Power Transition in Asia

<p>Current preoccupations with the 'rise of Asia' attest to the nascent contestation of the very idea of what the pattern of international politics should look like and how it should be practiced. In this respect, the growing reference to a 'shift to the East' in global politics has become a popular shorthand for the nascent 'power transition' in world affairs. This volume offers a detailed conceptual and empirical investigation of the dynamics of power transition in Asia and details the accommodation strategies and coping mechanisms of different small and middle powers in Asia and, importantly, China's responses to these approaches.</p> <p>CONTENTS</p><p>Acknowledgments </p><p>Notes on Contributors </p><p>Introduction:</p><p>Continuity and Change in the Adjustments of Small and Middle Powers in Asia to the Power Shift to the East</p><p>David Walton </p><p>Part I: Conceptual and Historical Contexts of Power Transition</p><p>Chapter 1</p><p>The Theory and Practice of Power Shift Revisited</p><p>Michael Cox</p><p>Chapter 2</p><p>Hegemonic Turnover in East Asia: A Historical Review since the Nineteenth Century</p><p>Tung-Chieh Tsai and Tony Tai-Ting Liu</p><p>Part II: Chinese Reactions to the Power Transition</p><p>Chapter 3</p><p>Power Transition in Asia: The View from China</p><p>Ren Xiao</p><p>Chapter 4</p><p>Chinese IR Theory Responds to the Power Transition</p><p>Hung-jen Wang</p><p>Part III: Asia-PACIFIC Reactions to the Power Transition</p><p>Chapter 5</p><p>Pivots, Transitions, and Distractions: Power Transition Theory in East Asia and the US-Japan-China Relationship</p><p>Steven F. Jackson</p><p>Chapter 6</p><p>Australia’s Asian Mirror</p><p>Malcolm Cook</p><p>Chapter 7</p><p>Sino-Indonesia relations towards 2050: the burden of history and the burden of expectations</p><p>Steven Drakeley</p><p>Chapter 8</p><p>The Senkaku/Diaoyudao territorial dispute: Legal, historical, and political perspectives</p><p>Go Ito</p><p>Chapter 9</p><p>Indian Perceptions of the Power Transition</p><p>Harsh V. Pant</p><p>Chapter 10</p><p>China’s Rise and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations: Certainty in the Midst of Uncertainty</p><p>Yitan Li and Enyu Zhang</p><p>Chapter 11</p><p>Russian Perceptions of the Power Transition</p><p>Artyom Lukin</p><p>Chapter 12</p><p>Vietnam Perceptions of the Power Transition</p><p>Kim Huynh and Thanh Hai Do</p><p>CONCLUSION</p><p>Whether Power Transition and Whither if One?</p><p>Emilian Kavalski</p>