Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia

1. Introduction: Why Strategic Uncertainty?
Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, Frans-Paul Putten

Part I. Evolving Regional Security Order in East Asia: Key Perspectives

2. Theoretical Approaches to Asia’s Changing Security Order
Nick Bisley

3. East Asian Security, Policy Debates and American Leadership
Robert Sutter

4. China’s Approach to the US Role in East Asia: The Dynamics of Volatile Competition
Shi Yinhong

Part II. East Asian Responses to Strategic Uncertainty

5. “Keeping the United States In”: Japan and Regional Order in East Asia
Kuniko Ashizawa

6. The US Security Role in South Korea: Issues that Test South Korean Confidence in the US Commitment
Larry Niksch

7. Political Resolve and Strategic Uncertainty in Taiwan-US Relations
Alexis Littlefield

8. New Strategic Uncertainty and Security Order in Southeast Asia
Carlyle A. Thayer

Part III. Alternative Models of Regional Security Order

9. A US-China Dual Leadership in East Asia?
Quansheng Zhao

10. Non-Traditional Security Cooperation and Northeast Asian Regional Order
Jaewoo Choo

11. Power Bumps on the Way to Regional Community: Asia’s Mixed Security Logics
Alice D. Ba

12. Conclusion: A Post-US Regional Order in the Making? East Asia’s Security Futures
Frans-Paul Putten, Elena Atanassova-Cornelis

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Military and Defence Studies, International Relations, Political Science