Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He is the editor of Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Stanford, 2003), Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia (Stanford, 2001), Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford, 1998), and Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford, 1995).

"Asian Security Order offers a complex and comprehensive, yet accessible analysis of the fundamental forces shaping security in Asia." - Pacific Affairs "...an intellectual feast..." - Journal of East Asian Studies "Asian Security Order is Muttiah Alagappa's third and final volume on a subject of vital and growing importance in world politics. It is the capstone volume of a theoretically sophisticated, intellectuallyintegrated, empirically rich, and politically sensitive set of inquiries. In the empirically informed literature on international relations, I know of no scholar writing on Asian security who comes close to matching the coherent and compelling vision of a politically relevant social science that Alagappa has succeeded in articulating. Like its two predecessors, this book will become required reading for any serious student of Asian security." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies (Cornell University)

• Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Predictability and Stability Despite Challenges MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA Part I. Conceptual Perspective 1. The Study of International Order: An Analytical Framework MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA 2. Constructing Security Order in Asia: Conceptions and Issues MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA 3. Sovereignty: Dominance of the Westphalian Concept and Implications for Regional Security CHUNG-IN MOON AND CHAESUNG CHUN Part II. Pathways to Order 4. Incomplete Hegemony: The United States and Security Order in Asia MICHAEL MASTANDUNO 5. Balance-of-Power Politics: Consequences for Asian Security Order AVERY GOLDSTEIN 6. Regional Institutions and Asian Security Order: Norms, Power, and Prospects for Peaceful Change AMITAV ACHARYA 7. Track 2 Diplomacy: Ideational Contribution to the Evolving Asian Security Order BRIAN L. JOB 8. Economic Interdependence and Economic Cooperation: Mitigating Conflict and Transforming Security Order in Asia MING WAN 9. The UN System as a Pathway to Security in Asia: A Buttress, Not a Pillar ROSEMARY FOOT Part III. Management of Specific Issues 10. Acute Conflicts in Asia After the Cold War: Kashmir, Taiwan, and Korea DAVID KANG 11. Territorial Disputes and Asian Security: Sources, Management, and Prospects JIANWEI WANG 12. Maritime Issues in Asia: The Problem of Adolescence JEAN-MARC F. BLANCHARD 13. Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Stability: A Case for "Sober Optimism" VICTOR D. CHA 14. Managing Internal Conflicts: Dominance of the State ARUN R. SWAMY AND JOHN GERSHMAN 15. Human Security: An Intractable Problem in Asia DEWI FORTUNA ANWAR Part IV. Conclusion 16. Managing Asian Security: Competition, Cooperation, and Evolutionary Change MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA

Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He is the editor of Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Stanford, 2003), Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia (Stanford, 2001), Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford, 1998), and Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford, 1995).

"Asian Security Order offers a complex and comprehensive, yet accessible analysis of the fundamental forces shaping security in Asia." - Pacific Affairs "...an intellectual feast..." - Journal of East Asian Studies "Asian Security Order is Muttiah Alagappa's third and final volume on a subject of vital and growing importance in world politics. It is the capstone volume of a theoretically sophisticated, intellectuallyintegrated, empirically rich, and politically sensitive set of inquiries. In the empirically informed literature on international relations, I know of no scholar writing on Asian security who comes close to matching the coherent and compelling vision of a politically relevant social science that Alagappa has succeeded in articulating. Like its two predecessors, this book will become required reading for any serious student of Asian security." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies (Cornell University)

• Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Predictability and Stability Despite Challenges MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA Part I. Conceptual Perspective 1. The Study of International Order: An Analytical Framework MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA 2. Constructing Security Order in Asia: Conceptions and Issues MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA 3. Sovereignty: Dominance of the Westphalian Concept and Implications for Regional Security CHUNG-IN MOON AND CHAESUNG CHUN Part II. Pathways to Order 4. Incomplete Hegemony: The United States and Security Order in Asia MICHAEL MASTANDUNO 5. Balance-of-Power Politics: Consequences for Asian Security Order AVERY GOLDSTEIN 6. Regional Institutions and Asian Security Order: Norms, Power, and Prospects for Peaceful Change AMITAV ACHARYA 7. Track 2 Diplomacy: Ideational Contribution to the Evolving Asian Security Order BRIAN L. JOB 8. Economic Interdependence and Economic Cooperation: Mitigating Conflict and Transforming Security Order in Asia MING WAN 9. The UN System as a Pathway to Security in Asia: A Buttress, Not a Pillar ROSEMARY FOOT Part III. Management of Specific Issues 10. Acute Conflicts in Asia After the Cold War: Kashmir, Taiwan, and Korea DAVID KANG 11. Territorial Disputes and Asian Security: Sources, Management, and Prospects JIANWEI WANG 12. Maritime Issues in Asia: The Problem of Adolescence JEAN-MARC F. BLANCHARD 13. Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Stability: A Case for "Sober Optimism" VICTOR D. CHA 14. Managing Internal Conflicts: Dominance of the State ARUN R. SWAMY AND JOHN GERSHMAN 15. Human Security: An Intractable Problem in Asia DEWI FORTUNA ANWAR Part IV. Conclusion 16. Managing Asian Security: Competition, Cooperation, and Evolutionary Change MUTHIAH ALAGAPPA