United States in the Indo-Pacific

Oliver Turner is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of EdinburghInderjeet Parmar is Professor of International Politics at City, University of London

• Introduction: The United States in the Asia and Indo-Pacifics – Inderjeet ParmarPart I: Obama’s legacy in Asia and the Pacific1 US imperial hegemony in the American Pacific – Oliver Turner2 Humanitarian hawk meets rising dragon: Obama’s legacy in US China Policy – Peter Gries3 The Obama administration and India – Christopher K. Colley and Sumit Ganguly4 Obama and Japan: An endangered legacy – Matteo Dian5 Obama, Trump, and North Korea – Bruce Cumings6 US and Australia: Deepening ties and securitising cyberspace – Maryanne Kelton and Zac Rogers7 Obama’s legacy in US-ASEAN relations: Promises and perils – Prashanth Parameswaran8 The Obama administration and the East Asia Summit: Exception, not transformation – Malcolm CookPart II: The US in Asia and the Pacific under Trump9 Obama, Trump and US politics and diplomacy towards Asia – Robert G. Sutter10 Security policy in Asia from Obama to Trump: Autopilot, neglect or worse? – Nick Bisley11 A grand strategic transition? Obama, Trump, and the Asia Pacific political economy – Mike MastandunoPart III: From Obama to Trump in Asia and the Pacific: The practitioners’ view12 From Obama to Trump, and beyond: Washington’s painful search for a credible China policy – Borje Ljunggren13 Multilateralism to transactionalism: America and Trump in the Asia Pacific – Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer14 Obama and Trump’s marine machoism in the Indo-Pacific – Atul BhardwajConclusion: Legacies and Transitions in the twenty first century Indo-Pacific – Oliver Turner and Inderjeet ParmarIndex

'This sound, edited volume provides varied and thorough analysis of recent US foreign policies regarding East and South Asia. Its first eight chapters assess Barack Obama’s policies and their consequences in the area. Next come three chapters on the first two years of the Trump administration's policies and finally three surveys of contemporary challenges and opportunities for US policies in the region. Many chapters contrast Obama’s nuanced "pivot to Asia" with Trump's more aggressive policies. This contrast spurs concerns among several authors about new uncertainties in the region. For example, Michael Mastanduno explores how Obama’s "hopeful" pivot policy has given way to Trump’s "combative" strategic competition. Authors’ concerns mount in the chapters concerning Trump’s policy changes. Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer list many potential winners and losers in the policy transition from Obama to Trump, culminating in two equally possible, but alternative, grand outcomes: declining American power or an orderly transition to multilateralism. A concluding chapter by the editors labels the region as one that "is set to dominate 21st-century global affairs" and finally asks how future US administrations "will respond to this rapidly evolving and highly unfamiliar set of global circumstances.'"S. E. Schier, emeritus, Carleton College