Toward Concert in Asia

Stuart, Douglas T.

doi:10.1525/as.1997.37.3.01p0228q

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“…Calls for a concert of powers in Asia date back as far as the 1930s with the Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies' statement (quoted in Millar, 1978, p. 103) that "I look forward to the day when we will have a concert of Pacific powers, pacific in both senses of the word". However, in the post-Cold War period, where expectations of a multipolar distribution of power at the regional level became widespread, the idea began to find some purchase (Friedberg, 1993-94;Stuart, 1997).…”

Section: The Inescapable European Concert Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regionalism and Great Power Management in the Asia–Pacific: Complementary or Competing Forces?

Zala

2019

Asian Studies Review

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This article seeks to advance the recent turn in the literature on regionalism in the Asia-Pacific that considers the scope for an effective managerial role for the region's great powers. Drawing on the work of the English School of International Relations on "great power management", the article seeks to clarify the interaction between processes of regionalism and the special managerial rights and responsibilities of the great powers. It draws on both the lessons of historical instances of institutionalised great power management in the form of great power concerts and a theoretical reframing of the practice of great power management. The article argues in favour of a disaggregated approach that prioritises crisis management between the great powers over more expansive versions of great power management in the immediate term. Distinguishing between different types of great power management at both the global and regional levels and highlighting the different lessons that scholars have drawn from the history of great power concerts leads to three recommendations for aligning great power management with processes of regionalism. First, prioritising regular and purposely exclusive dialogue between the United States and China in the immediate term. Second, fostering ad-hoc regional power summits over the medium to long-term as the distribution of power in the region shifts from one of bipolarity to multipolarity. And third, throughout both phases, actively avoiding what is labelled "competitive minilateralism" that is likely to both compete with existing regional institutions and work against the order-building goals of great power management.

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Section: The Inescapable European Concert Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regionalism and Great Power Management in the Asia–Pacific: Complementary or Competing Forces?

Zala

2019

Asian Studies Review

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“…142 More recently, White has suggested a fourpower arrangement involving India instead of Russia, given the former's rise and the latter's declining footprint in Asia. 143 A Concert of Asia could be built on the following elements: a willingness and commitment to resolve major-power conflict via negotiation, clear understandings about legitimate conduct, a focus on addressing common threats and a determination to insulate major powers' relations with each other from crises involving members outside the concert.…”

Section: Regional Security Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions, postures and instability

Choong¹

2014

Adelphi Series

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“…Recently, the notion of a 'Concert of Asia' has been canvassed as an alternative (Shirk 1997: 245-70;Acharya 1999b;Stuart 1997). The Concert idea implicitly or explicitly takes as its model the Concert of Europe, which lasted between 1815 and 1854.…”

Section: Evaluating a Concert Of Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%