Amitav Acharya is Deputy Director, Head of Research, and Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. See Seng Tan is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he coordinates the Multilateralism and Regionalism Program.

• Introduction, Part I 1. Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Evolution of Concepts and Practices 2. Convergent Security Revisited: Reconciling Bilateral and Multilateral Security Approaches 3. Accelerating the Evolutionary Process of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective Part II 4. The Evolving Chinese Conception of Security and Security Approaches 5. Indonesia and Regional Security: The Quest for Cooperative Security 6. Japan’s Compound Approach to Security Cooperation 7. South Korea’s Strategy for Inter-Korean Relations and Regional Security Cooperation 8. Malaysian Defense and Security Cooperation: Coming Out of the Closet 9. The Revitalized Philippine-U.S. Security Relations: The Triumph of Bilateralism Over Multilateralism in Philippine Foreign Policy? 10. Singapore’s Perspective on the Asia-Pacific Security Architecture 11. Thailand’s Perspective on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific 12. Recalibration Not Transformation: U.S. Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific