The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific

Introduction  SECTION ONE: History of the US in the Indo-Pacific  1. The United States in the Indo-Pacific before World War II: Trends, Strategic Thinking, and Diplomatic Realities  2. World War Two and the Post-War ‘New Order’ in the Indo-Pacific  3. US Grand Strategy in Asia  SECTION TWO: Theorising US policy and presence in the Indo-Pacific  4. ‘Asian’ International Relations Theory: Theorizing Difference, Speaking Back from the Indo-Pacific, and Alternative Imaginaries of US Indo-Pacific Policy  5. The Racial Dimensions of US Foreign Relations in the Indo-Pacific  6. Power and Hegemony in the Indo-Pacific: A Postcolonial View  7. West Meets East: Constructivism and American Policy in the Indo-Pacific  8. Poststructuralism and US Discourses of the Indo-Pacific  9. Gender and US Foreign and Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific  10. Explaining the US presence in the Indo-Pacific: Marxist-Gramscian-Kautskyian approaches  11. Realist Theories and US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific  12. The Liberal Paradigm and U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific  SECTION THREE: The US and Indo-Pacific states and institutions  13. US foreign policy towards China  14. The US, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific  15. The US and North Korea: The Nuclear Problem that Refuses to Go Away  16. Alliance asymmetries and the challenges of balancing security and democracy: US relations with the Republic of Korea  17. The United States and Taiwan: Foundations and challenges of the One China Policy  18. The Philippines in the United States’ Indo-Pacific Grand Strategies: From Strategic Rebalancing to Strategic Competition  19. Less is More: US Engagement with Indonesia (1945-2021)  20. US-Myanmar/Burma Policy  21. US relations with Sri Lanka: A Case of Impulsiveness, Missed Opportunities and Strategic Competition  22. The Evolution of American Foreign Policy Toward India  23. Misaligned expectations and broken promises: United States foreign policy approach towards Pakistan (1947-2021)  24. US Engagement with Australia: ‘No better friend’?  25. The United States and ASEAN: Bilateralism and Regionalism in a Changing Asia  SECTION FOUR: The US and Indo-Pacific issues  26. The Pursuit of Primacy: US Security Policy in Indo-Pacific  27. US regional economic policy in the Indo-Pacific  28. Congress, Domestic Politics and Contemporary US Policy in the Indo-Pacific  29. US Nuclear Strategy in the Indo-Pacific (1945-2021) 30. The Role of Democracy and Human Rights in U.S. Indo-Pacific Policy (1945-2021)  31. US concerns regarding the Belt and Road Initiative  32. US Cyber Strategy in the Indo-Pacific  33. The US, Indo-Pacific, AI and Emerging Security Technologies

"The volume is a collection of comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced analyses of US policy in the Indo-Pacific by top-notch experts. A must reading for students and practitioners of American　foreign policy and Indo-Pacific affairs."
- Chung-in Moon, Chairman of the Sejong Institute and Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University
"In the 2020s, the United States is staking its credibility on the stabilising role it plays in a region defined as the Indo-Pacific. This book brings an exceptional diversity of global scholarship to bear on understanding the many dimensions and long pedigree of America's Indo-Pacific policies, which are about much more than the military balancing of China."
- Rory Medcalf, Professor and Head, National Security College, Australian National University, and author of Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region.
"A timely and valuable contribution to understanding how the idea of the Indo-Pacific is taking shape as a normalised region, and how it has become enveloped into the dominant geopolitical rivalries of our era. This Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives and voices, and covers issues, actors, and methodological approaches that help to uncover the nature and significance of America's role in the evolution of this construct."
- Rosemary Foot, Professor Emerita, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

Oliver Turner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Nicola Nymalm is Assistant Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (FHS) and an Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm.
Wali Aslam is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the University of Bath, UK.