This book examines the strategic interactions among China, the
United States, Japan, and Southeast Asian States in the context of
China s rise and globalization after the cold war. Engaging the
mainstream theoretical debates in international relations, the
author introduces a new theoretical framework institutional realism
to explain the institutionalization of world politics in the
Asia-Pacific after the cold war.
Institutional realism suggests that deepening economic
interdependence creates a condition under which states are more
likely to conduct a new balancing strategy institutional balancing,
i.e., countering pressures or threats through initiating,
utilizing, and dominating multilateral institutions to pursue
security under anarchy. To test the validity of institutional
realism, Kai He examines the foreign policies of the U.S., Japan,
the ASEAN states, and China toward four major multilateral
institutions, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum
(ARF), ASEAN Plus Three (APT), and East Asian Summit (EAS).
Challenging the popular pessimistic view regarding China s rise,
the book concludes that economic interdependence and structural
constraints may well soften the "dragon s teeth." China s rise does
not mean a dark future for the region.
Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific will be of great
interest to policy makers and scholars of Asian security,
international relations, Chinese foreign policy, and U.S. foreign
policy.
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