Indo-Pacific Theatre

Srabani Roy Choudhury is Professor in Japanese Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Over three decades of association with Japan, her research has centred on Japan’s regional economic strategy and is currently focused on the Indo-Pacific region. She has been promoting Japanese studies through her teaching and supervision at her university. She was a visiting faculty of the Graduate School of Development Studies, Nagoya University (2019). She has had the opportunity to visit and conduct research through visiting fellow programmes at Research Institutes for Economics and Business Administration Kobe university (2014), Keizai Koho Centre (Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs) (2012) and Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance (2012).

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: Advancing an Effective Security Framework 1 Strategising Institutional Arrangement in Japan’s FOIP: Quad, ASEAN and Tactical Hedging 2 The Indo-Pacific Power: The United States, the Quad and the Making of a Megaregion 3 Australia and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific: A Strategy for the Defence of a “Rules-Based Order”4 India, the Indo-Pacific and the Quad 5 Quad’s Roadmap: Anchoring Strategic Solutions in the Post-pandemic World PART 2: Convergences and Divergences on China 6 China and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy: From Donald Trump to Joe Biden 7 US–China Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific: The Harding Way or the Harder Way 8 An Indian Perspective of China’s Activities in the Indo-PacificPART 3: Unravelling the Regional Strategies 9 ASEAN Centrality: Opportunities and Challenges 10 Republic of Korea’s Indo-Pacific Approach: Reluctance and Prospect 11 Geopolitical Aspects of European Union’s Approach to Indo-Pacific 12 Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Converging Trends in European Union Strategy to Japan’s Vision PART 4: The Quest for Economic Framework 13 The Search for Alternatives in the Indo-Pacific: The Blue Dot Network and the Resilient Supply Chain Initiative14 Economic Architecture in the Indo-Pacific Region: India’s Tryst