The Upside of US-Chinese Strategic Competition

Kai He is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. He served as a non-resident Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2022–2023), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017–2020), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009–2010). Huiyun Feng is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her latest co-authored books include After Hedging (with Kai He, Cambridge Elements in IR, 2023) and Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (with Steve Chan, Wenxin Hu, and Kai He, 2022).

• 1. International Order Transition and US-China Competition: Beyond the Thucydides Trap; 2. Institutional Peace Theory: Institutionalizing US-China Competition; 3. Institutional Balancing in the Security Sub-order: Building a New Co-existent Security Architecture; 4. Institutional Balancing in the Economic Sub-order: Beyond the Spaghetti Bowl Effect; 5. Institutional Balancing in the Political Sub-order: Keeping the Political Diversity for Peace; 6. Building Institutional Peace in the Asia Pacific in the 21st Century.