LEADER 04541nam 22005175 450 001 9911002560603321 005 20250513130328.0 010 $a9783031874765 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-87476-5 035 $a(CKB)38776474600041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-87476-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32110184 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32110184 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938776474600041 100 $a20250513d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGeopolitics and strategy: China, the Quad and the Southeast Asian Pivot /$fby Leszek Buszynski 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 271 p. 12 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security,$x2730-7980 311 08$a9783031874758 327 $aChapter one - Geopolitics revised -- Chapter two - The changing nature of Strategy -- Chapter three - China?s Geopolitical Ambitions -- Chapter four - China?s Maritime Geography and its Naval Expansion -- Chapter five - The Quad response -- Chapter six - Japan, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific -- Chapter seven - US, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific -- Chapter eight - Australia, Geopolitics, the Quad and the Indo Pacific -- Chapter nine - India, Geopolitics, the Quad, and the Indo Pacific -- Chapter ten - Southeast Asia as the Geopolitical Pivot -- Chapter eleven - Geopolitics and the future. 330 $aChina seeks geopolitical space in the Western Pacific. The spearhead of China's expansion is the navy which is now the world's largest with an expanding carrier force to enforce its maritime claims in the South China Sea and to push the US back from the Western Pacific. In view of China's constricted maritime geography, Southeast Asia is the one place that can provide access for its expanding navy allowing China to expand in different directions. Southeast Asia is a geopolitical pivot for China. Control of this region would deprive the US of a positional advantage in the Western Pacific, and would separate Japan from India, nullifying the Quad grouping which brought together the US, Japan, Australia and India to counter Chinese expansionism. Because of its strategic value, Southeast Asia has become a key region in the rivalry between China and the US with its partners in the Quad. Whether China can achieve control of this region is of great concern to the US and the Quad as it relates to Chinese long-term ambitions and its challenge not just to the region but to the global liberal order. Leszek Buszynski is Honorary Professor with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra Australia. He has published widely on the security of the Asia Pacific and the theme of regional geopolitics. He is the author of Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US (Routledge 2019), with Do Thanh Hai, he was editor of the South China Sea: From Regional Maritime Dispute to Geostrategic Competition, (Routledge 2020), and also with Do Thanh Hai, Maritime issues and Regional Order in the Indo Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan 2021). He is the author of "Australia's Geopolitics and the South China Sea", in Gordon Houlding et al (editor), Security, Strategy, and Military Dynamics in the South China Sea, (Bristol University Press, 2021) and ?The Geopolitics of Southeast Asia? in Zak Cope (editor) ? The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics" (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) He was also general editor of The Handbook of Japanese Security, (MHM Press, Tokyo 2023). 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security,$x2730-7980 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aInternational Relations Theory 606 $aInternational Security Studies 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 14$aInternational Relations Theory. 615 24$aInternational Security Studies. 676 $a327.101 700 $aBuszynski$b Leszek$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0879340 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911002560603321 996 $aGeopolitics and strategy: China, the Quad and the Southeast Asian Pivot$94384728 997 $aUNINA