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The topic of this book deals with a highly relevant empirical issue: East asian security and the dynamics of the respective governance structure or architecture are not only of regional but of global concern. Since the pivot of the American pivot to East Asia and other external actor s responses to it the security architecture has changed in form, size and function. In order to analyze and explain these changes, hypotheses derived from IR middle range theories (i.e. soft and hard balancing) will be applied to cases of bilateral and multilateral security governance in East Asia.

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The US pivot and its implications for the current East Asian Security Architecture

Intra-Asian Defense Cooperation and the Emergence of a 2nd Order Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific

Sino-American Competition as Security Suppliers in the Asia-Pacific

Paul Kennedy´s Conception of Great Power Rivalry and US-China Relations in the Obama Era etc.

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Dr. Stefan Fröhlich is Professor for International Politics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Dr. Howard Loewen is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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