This book explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world.
With the Quad partners Australia, India, Japan and the United States seeing deteriorating ties with China, the book provides a holistic understanding of the reasons why Quad Plus matters and what it means for the post-COVID Indo-Pacific and Asian order. It goes beyond the existing literature of the global Post-COVID reality and examines how Quad Plus can grow and find synergy with national and multilateral Indo-Pacific initiatives. The chapters analyze the mechanisms uncharacteristic yet active approach of including countries like South Korea, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand and ASEAN/Vietnam for their successful handling of the pandemic crisis, thereby reshaping the new worlds geopolitical vision.
A unique study focused solely on the intricacies and the broader dialogue of the Quad Plus narrative, the book caters to strategic audiences as well as academics researching International Relations, Politics, and Indo-Pacific and Asian Studies.
This book explores how Quad Plus mechanism will reshape global multilateral economic and security co-operations. A unique study focused solely on intricacies and broader dialogue of Quad Plus, the book caters to strategic audiences and academics researching International Relations, Politics, and Indo-Pacific and Asian Studies.
Introduction
Quad Plus- Shaping Relationships in the Indo-Pacific
Beijing, Quad and the Quad Plus
1. Chinas Views of the Quad and Quad Plus Arrangements
2. Competition and
Coalitions: The United States, Quad Plus and the Chinese Challenge in the
Indo-Pacific
3. The Quad Plus and Indias Pointed Alignment Strategy
4.
Nurturing the Quad Plus Formula: Institutional Perspective of Japans FOIP
5. Australia, New Zealand and the Quad Plus
The Plus Perspectives
6. Fracturing Architecture? The Quad Plus and ASEAN Centrality in the
Indo-Pacific
7. Britain in the Indo-Pacific and the Quad Plus, or even a
"Quint"?
8. The Quad Plus and South Koreas Quest for Foreign Policy Autonomy
9. Israel, India and Quad Plus: Searching for Alternatives to Western
Perspectives
10. France and the Quad Plus: Keeping Flexibility in the
Indo-Pacific
11. Function over Form: Canadas Bolting-in and Capabilities-led
Approach to Quad Plus Engagement
12. The Indo-Pacific Quad Plus at Atlantic
Latin American Shores: Moment of Covet or Reckoning for Brazilian Foreign
Policy?
A View from the Others
13. Russias Attitude to the Quad Plus: Troublesome Present, Hazy Future
14.
Quad Plus: A Role for Indian Ocean Island States?
15. The Quad Plus
proposition in a Middle Eastern context
16. The Quad Plus and Promoting
International Connectivity: A Focus on the Makran Region
Jagannath Panda is a research fellow and center coordinator for East Asia at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. He is the series editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Dr. Panda is an expert on China and Indo-Pacific security with a primary focus on East Asia: China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula.
Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs and director of the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers. Prior to standing up the journal, he was the acting director and managing editor of Air University Press and the acting dean of the Air Force Research Institute.
