Geopolitics and strategy: China, the Quad and the Southeast Asian Pivot

Leszek Buszynski is Honorary Professor with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra Australia.  He has published widely on the security of the Asia Pacific and the theme of regional geopolitics in various publications. He is the author of  Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US (Routledge 2019), with Do Thanh Hai, he was editor of the South China Sea: From Regional Maritime Dispute to Geostrategic Competition, (Routledge 2020), and also with Do Thanh Hai, Maritime issues and Regional Order in the Indo Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan 2021). He is the author of "Australia's Geopolitics and the South China Sea", in Gordon Houlding et al (editor), Security, Strategy, and Military Dynamics in the South China Sea, (Bristol University Press, 2021) and “The Geopolitics of Southeast Asia” in Zak Cope (editor) ”The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics"  (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) He was also general editor of The Handbook of Japanese Security, (MHM Press, Tokyo 2023).

• Chapter one - Geopolitics revised.- Chapter two - The changing nature of Strategy.- Chapter three - China‘s Geopolitical Ambitions.- Chapter four - China’s Maritime Geography and its Naval Expansion.- Chapter five - The Quad response.- Chapter six - Japan, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter seven - US, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter eight - Australia, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter nine - India, Geopolitics, the Quad, and the Indo Pacific.- Chapter ten - Southeast Asia as the Geopolitical Pivot.- Chapter eleven - Geopolitics and the future.