Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community

Edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill

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Paper, 400 pages, 9 illus; 5 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14443-8
$32.50 / £22.50

February, 2009
Cloth, 400 pages, 9 illus; 5 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14442-1
$89.50 / £62.00

"An excellent textbook for students and scholars in international relations, political science, and Asian studies, and even for diplomats and policy makers." — Alon Levkowitz, H-US-Japan

"Michael J. Green and Bates Gill have given those of us who think and write about Asia, but are not Asianists, just what we need: a book that puts the bewildering array of multilateral asian institutions into a context we can understand. The individual chapters are grouped into two parts, one providing national perspectives on multiplying multilateral institutions, the other treating the economic, security, and governance issues raised by this peculiar phenomenon. The introductory chapter brilliantly frames and introduces the well-written, lean, and useful pieces contributed by distinguished authors. Most useful is the volume's crisp identification of the tensions involved in Asian multilateralism, from soaring rhetoric to anemic performance, from ‘budding Asianization’ to an embrace of the Pacific community, and from enthusiasm for institution building to an acceptance of ad hoc ‘minilateral’ groups. In the end, the book serves as the best available realist's guide to the complex and important political reality that defines Asia today." — Robert L Gallucci, dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

"This book is that rare item: an edited volume that is coherent, analytical, and informative. It is the best recent book on multilateralism in the region and must be required reading for teachers and students of international relations in the Asia-Pacific." — Evelyn Goh, University of London

Related Subjects

• East Asian Studies
• International Affairs

About the Author

Michael J. Green is the Japan Chair and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He has served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. His publications include Japan's Reluctant Realism and Arming Japan.Bates Gill is the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He previously held the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies and the inaugural director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy.

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