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Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 09/04/2011; 3B2 version: 9.1.406/W Unicode (May 24 2007) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/RITY/ApplicationFiles/9780415670548.3d Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era This book examines the critical changes to the Asia-Pacific security architecture emerging in the context of shifts in the global order as the Obama Administra- tion’s major strategic innovation and likely legacy unfold. The author reviews the state of the international security system during the Obama presidency, recording the Administration’s Asia-Pacific inheritance, and tracing its efforts to chart a collaborative course aimed at retaining US primacy amidst strategic turbulence. While security discourses are coloured by relative US ‘decline’ and China’s ‘rise,’ the book points out the competitive-cooperative complexity of interactions, with symbiotic economic ties moderating rivalry. Focusing on the military-security cutting edge of Sino-US dynamics, the narrative outlines the dangers posed by extreme nationalist dialectics in an interdependent milieu. It examines the policies of Japan, Australia, India and Russia towards the evolving Sino-US diarchy, while recording Washington’s and Beijing’scon- trasting approaches to these allies and possible adversaries. The book concludes with observations on the loss of definition and clarity as the system evolves with multiple actors bidding for influence, and the need for statesmanship as the systemic fulcrum moves from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Asian Politics, American Politics, International Security and International Relations. Dr S. Mahmud Ali is an Associate at the London School of Economics IDEAS East Asia International Affairs Programme. 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Megan Green Obama Era Elections as Popular Culture in Asia A new world emerging Edited by Chua Beng Huat S. Mahmud Ali Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 09/04/2011; 3B2 version: 9.1.406/W Unicode (May 24 2007) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/RITY/ApplicationFiles/9780415670548.3d Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era A new world emerging S. Mahmud Ali Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 09/04/2011; 3B2 version: 9.1.406/W Unicode (May 24 2007) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/RITY/ApplicationFiles/9780415670548.3d First published 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2011 S. Mahmud Ali The right of S. Mahmud Ali to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. 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