Order and Agency in the Indo-Pacific

Delphine Allès is Professor of Political Science and Vice President of Inalco, Paris.Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, and Professor at King’s College London.Patrick Köllner is GIGA’s Vice President, Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• Introduction: Order(ing) and Agency in the Indo-Pacific: Analytical Issues and the Contributions of this Volume.- The Indo-Pacific Interregnum.- Multilateral Foundations and Minilateral Developments: Navigating Institutional Evolution and Cooperative Saturation in the Indo-Pacific.-  Mapping Global Geoeconomics: Beyond Sino-Centrism and the Belt and Road Initiative.- Australia, Japan, and a ‘Greater AUKUS’.- India in the Indo-Pacific: Ordering at the Margins.- Vietnam and the Philippines: Neorealist/Liberal Internationalist Actorness and Middle Power Agency in the Indo-Pacific.- Small Powers Navigating Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Conceptual Perspectives and Evidence from Pacific Island Countries.- Europeans and the Indo-Pacific: Is there a ‘Third Way’ between China and the United States?.- Facing a Balancing Coalition? Chinese Views of Indo-Pacific Strategies.