The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia

Saadia Pekkanen is Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington.Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia at St Antony's College, Oxford University.John Ravenhill is Head of the School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National Univerisity.

In sum, The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia is an excellent reference for advanced IR students and a valuable teaching resource for scholars. Most importantly, it is probably the most comprehensive volume addressing the contemporary IR of Asia, as written by some of the fields leading and most influential scholars.

• About the Contributors ; List of Tables and Illustrations ; PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. The International Relations of Asia ; Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot ; PART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES ; 2. Realism and Asia ; Michael Mastanduno ; 3. The Liberal View of the International Relations of Asia ; Stephan Haggard ; 4. Constructivism and International Relations in Asia ; David Leheny ; 5. Foreign Policy Analysis and the IR of Asia ; Yuen Foong Khong ; 6. The International Society Approach and Asia ; Barry Buzan ; 7. International Relations Theory and the <"Rise of Asia>" ; Amitav Acharya ; PART III INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ; A. FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND POLICIES ; 8. Japan's Foreign Economic Policies ; Mireya Solis ; 9. China's Foreign Economic Relations and Policies ; Margaret M. Pearson ; 10. The Foreign Economic Policy of a Rising India ; Amrita Narlikar ; 11. South Korea's Foreign Economic Relations and Government Policies ; Myung-Koo Kang ; 12. The Political Economy of Southeast Asia's Foreign Economic Policies and Relations ; Helen Nesadurai ; 13. Central Asia's Inside-Out Foreign Economic Relations ; Alexander Cooley ; B. REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ; 14. Principal Developments and Future Directions in Asia's Trade ; Christopher Dent ; 15. The Rise of Financial Cooperation in Asia ; William W. Grimes ; 16. Currency and Exchange Rate Regimes in Asia ; Saori N. Katada and C. Randall Henning ; 17. The Evolution of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia ; Saadia M. Pekkanen and Kellee S. Tsai ; 18. Production Networks in Asia ; John Ravenhill ; PART IV INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ; A. FOREIGN SECURITY RELATIONS AND POLICIES ; 19. Japan's Foreign Security Relations and Policies ; Christopher W. Hughes ; 20. The Domestic Context of Chinese Foreign Security Policies ; Susan Shirk ; 21. India's Foreign and Security Policies ; Sumit Ganguly ; 22. Strong, Prosperous or Great? North Korean Security and Foreign Policy ; John Delury and Chung-In Moon ; 23. South Korea's Foreign Relations and Security Policies ; Scott A. Snyder and Leif-Eric Easley ; 24. Southeast Asia's Evolving Security Relations and Strategies ; Evelyn Goh ; 25. A Synthetic Approach to Foreign Security Relations and Policies in Central Asia Sally N. Cummings ; B. REGIONAL RIVALRIES AND COOPERATION ; 26. Nuclear Politics in Asia ; Jingdong Yuan ; 27. Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia ; M. Taylor Fravel ; 28. Energy Security in Asia ; Purnendra Jain ; 29. Economic-Security Linkages in Asia ; Hidetaka Yoshimatsu ; PART V TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN SECURITY ; 30. Human Rights Developments in Asia ; Ian Neary ; 31. Health Risks and Responses in Asia ; Kerstin Lukner ; 32. Forced Migration in Contemporary Asia ; Michael Strausz ; 33. Environment, Human Security, and Cooperation in Asia ; Kim D. Reimann ; PART VI OLD AND NEW PROSPECTS ; 34. Asia's Regional Security Institutions ; Alice D. Ba ; 35. Ideas and Institutionalization in Asia ; Richard Stubbs and Jennifer Mustapha ; 36. Trade Institutions in Asia ; Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo ; 37. Geography and the Security Dilemma in Asia ; Jennifer Lind ; 38. American Alliances and Asia's Regional Architecture ; Victor D. Cha ; 39. Strategic Asian Triangles ; Michael J. Green