US-India Partnership in the Indo-Pacific

Implications for China
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-95611-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics

This book discusses the partnership between the US and India in the Indo-Pacific region, which also serves as an engine for the Quad alliance of the US, India, Japan, and Australia. It investigates the multilateral efforts taken by the Quad and its effects on changing, reforming, or establishing a new regional security complex against China in the Indo-Pacific.

The theory employed by the author is based on a novel construct of Heterarchical Regional Security Complex (HRSC), which refers to a de-centralized principle of power distribution; that is, power is not concentrated in a particular element but rather diffused within the entire structure. When merged with the Regional Security Complex (RSC) Theory, it presumes the creation of such a security complex in which all members have roughly equal power. This book unravels how the Quad can operate as an HRSC in balancing against China’s growing hold in the region. It is supplemented by the Balance of Threat framework to discuss the functioning of Quad from a minilateral perspective with a heterarchical overlay. Besides Quad, this book also focuses on the blooming partnership between the US and India since the turn of the century (2007–2020).

This book will be beneficial for researchers interested in international relations, Asian politics, regional security, and Indo-Pacific studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaffery, Tayyaba

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.     The Indo-Pacific Regional Landscape: Setting the Stage

2.     Heterarchical Regional Security Complex (HRSC) – Theoretical Underpinnings

3.     The Trajectory of US-India Relationship: From Estrangement to a Strategic Partnership

4.     Japan and Australia: Shared Sensibilities in Quad

5.     China’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Paradoxical Reality?

6.     Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Tayyaba Jaffery holds a PhD in international relations from the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. She has published in internationally acclaimed journals such as Strategic Analysis and The International Spectator. Her research interests include regional politics, international relations theory, Indo-Pacific power politics, and security studies.