"This is an impressive book about international business and security issues for two reasons: first, it is a comprehensive book, making it relevant for all international business scholars, and second, the intersection of international business and security is very novel and important. As such, this book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners likewise."Professor Florian Bauer, Sir Roland Smith Chair in Strategic Management, Lancaster University, United Kingdom "An excellent and timely read for managers, policymakers, and researchers." - Dr Christopher Hoy, The World Bank, United States "A very insightful and well-rounded take on international business and security and how it shapes the rising powers in the Asia-Pacific. An essential read for policymakers, researchers, scholars, and journalists."- Wella Andany, CNN, Indonesia In the context of intensifying nationalism and protectionism and a reconfiguration of the global value chains, the world's leading economies find themselves confronted with significant challenges. To address these issues, this book builds on conceptual and empirical analysis and makes a case for interdisciplinary research that connects International Business (IB) and International Security (IS) domains. Employing the concept of geostrategy and using multi-level approaches to explain the interaction among various players in IB and IS, the authors examine the implications that IB and IS disciplines provide to each other. This book is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in international business, international relations, international security, and international political economy and answers the growing call for an interdisciplinary research approach to promoting critical thinking in the rapidly evolving international business and security environment.Dr Jiye Kim is an award-winning Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan and a researcher af liated with the University of Sydney in Australia.

Dr Arpit Raswant is an award-winning Assistant Professor at Deakin University in Australia and a Visiting Researcher at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.

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Arpit Raswant is an Assistant Professor at the Deakin Business School and a Visiting Academic at the Lancaster University Management School. Arpit is hosted by the Korea University as a recipient of the prestigious fellowship supported by the Korea Foundation, an affiliated organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the MSc International Business and Strategy at the Lancaster University Management School and a Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Sydney Business School. His research focuses on firm investment from social, economic, and security perspectives.

Jiye Kim is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney and has contributed to Macquarie University as an Assistant Professor. Jiye has won various accolades, including the Best Postgraduate Conference Paper Prize by the Australian Political Studies Association and the support of the National Institute for International Education, an agency under the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea. She teaches various courses on topics ranging from Asia-Pacific Politics to International Relations and Security. Her research contributes to the emerging discourses on Indo-Pacific Strategy, South China Sea, New Security Alignments, and Geostrategy, focusing on China and India.

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In the context of intensifying nationalism and protectionism and a reconfiguration of the global value chains, the world's leading economies find themselves confronted with significant challenges. In an attempt to address these issues, this book builds on conceptual and empirical analysis to explore international business and security through the lens of geostrategy and ultimately makes a case for interdisciplinary research that builds on International Business (IB) and International Security (IS).

Employing the concept of geostrategy to explain the interaction between various players in IB and IS disciplines, the authors examine implications that IB and IS provide to each other. They do so with a multi-level and cross-level approach - regional, national, and subnational - to enhance our understanding of the emerging international order's rising powers.

A valuable resource for students and researchers interested in international business, international relations, international security, and international political economy, this book builds on the growing call for an interdisciplinary research approach to promote critical thinking in the rapidly evolving international business and security environment.

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International Business and Security - Geostrategic Perspective The introductory chapter provides an overview of the book and introduces geostrategic perspective to the reader in relation to our research context. The discipline of International Business (IB) studies the dynamics in the global business environment and opportunities. Meanwhile, International Security (IS) discipline examines the causes of threats, conflicts, and wars. This monograph chooses geostrategy as a concept to look for the interactions among the players of IB and IS. From classical geopolitics to contemporary geopolitics, theorists discussed the geographic reality and the centroid of the economy and power. Geopolitical thinkers of the 19th-20th century argue that the economic potential of the "Eurasian heartland" (Mackinder 1951), or maritime trade and naval power (Mahan 1949), or the capacity to control the "Asia-Pacific rimland" (Spykman 1944) changes the balance of global power. Geopolitics has traditionally been a concept of analyzing foreign and security policymaking of a country actor. However, recently, the need for geostrategic analysis of actors at various levels has been raised (Rhodes 2019). These levels include individual policy-makers' perception of space (individual level), a government's policymaking as an outcome of group thinking and group culture (national level), and the dynamics of the relationship between countries (international level). This chapter discusses that geostrategy has the property of multi-level and cross-level interactions.

The significance of politics has become a popular topic in the IB literature. Buckley, Doh, and Benischke (2017, 1045) argue that "IB can play a more constructive and vital role by tackling expansive topics at the business-societal interface." Chase-Dunn, Kawano, and Brewer (2000), Jones (2007), O'Rourke and Williamson (2014), and Witt (2019) from the IB discipline agree that politics play a critical role for firms and individuals to benefit from technology, transportation, and communication. There are also attempts to explain the IB phenomenon using IS theories such as realism and liberalism. Witt argues that "The centrality of politics stems from its role as a key driver of (de-)globalization" and suggests implications for the IB research (Witt 2019, 1054). IB and IS are disciplines that actively interact with each other, rather than functioning as a cause or effect on either side. This chapter discusses how an interdisciplinary study will be built for the research puzzle and the usefulness of a geostrategic perspective with model examples of cross-level interactions among players in IB and IS.

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International Business and Security Focus - Emerging Economies in the Indo-Pacific

The concept of "Indo-Pacific" has important implications for the International Business and Security research domains particularly for emerging markets in the region. The chapter discusses the birth and development of the Indo-Pacific concept in the context of ever-increasing business-security interaction. By the United States, its military allies, and partners sinc…