This book analyzes current security challenges in Asia (understood in its broader IndoPacific sense) with the aim of capturing the major shifts in the balance of power involving regional actors. Through the lenses of IR theory, this book seeks to provide insights into the consequences of the transition of power from the United States to China. The growing power of China and its impact on both neighboring countries and the international system as a whole, as well as its reception by the United States, have been of key importance to the development of security and international studies. By presenting the case studies of regional security challenges from a multidimensional perspective, this book analyzes both the stages of the maturity of powers and their satisfaction within the existing system.

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Olga Barbasiewicz, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She holds an MA and a PhD in political science as well as an MA in Japanese studies. In her current research, she focuses on memory politics, Japanese Korean relations and migration studies in wartime East Asia (Japan, Shanghai). Marcin Grabowski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the director of the Centre for International Studies and Development at the JU. His research interests focus on the AsiäPacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements in the region, American and Chinese foreign policy, theories of IR, and International Economics. Ewa Trojnar is an associate professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the head of the Chair of Japan and the Taiwan Studies Centre. She obtained her PhD and habilitation in political science, and an MA in economics in the field of European studies. She is a researcher and teacher of political science as well as of international relations in the AsiäPacific region.

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Introduction Olga Barbasiewicz, Marcin Grabowski, Ewa Trojnar 1 Changing Security Dynamics in the IndöPacific Jakub Przetacznik 2 AsiäPacific Security: Australiäs Perspective Attila Endre Simay 3 Foreign Trade as Economic (Inter)dependence in Asia East Asian Problems Pawe Behrendt 4 The Significance of Sea Lanes of Communication for Regional Security in East Asia Andras Bartok 5 Amongst Dragons and Bears: Japan s Defense Policy during Heisei Era Adam Stempler 6 The South China Sea Dispute between China and the Philippines Krzysztof Koz owski 7 Post-Cold War North Korea People s Republic of China Relations from a Game Theory Perspective Zsolt Horvath 8 The Changing Picture of China: Can Chinäs Investment in Soft Power Change the World s Perception about the Asian Giant? South Asian Security Antonina uszczykiewicz 9 The China-India Border Conflict: Prospects for War and Peace in the 21st Century Adrian Brona 10 Development of the Belt and Road Initiative: Security Challenges in South Asia Ramachandra Byrappa 11 The Melting of South Asiäs Frontier Zone and Its Consequences Dora Gunsberger 12 CPEC through the Lenses of Security: Internal and External Challenges Notes on Contributors Index