About the Series
The Cambridge Elements Series in "Indo-Pacific Security" publishes original and authoritative contributions on security issues, broadly defined, in the Indo-Pacific region. This Elements series addresses a wide range of diverse and timely topics, including potential flashpoints such as the South China Sea and the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, as well as non-traditional and emerging topics like space competition, economic security, supply chains, and climate change.
By adopting a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-thematic approach to Indo-Pacific security research, this Elements series aims to publish cutting-edge research with both theoretical depth and empirical insight. It provides a unique intellectual space for scholars to tackle complex and pressing security challenges facing the region, contributing to the enhancement of overall scholarship in the field. This series is open to any methodological approach.
Each Element undergoes rigorous peer-review and is published quickly to reach its audience in a timely fashion. Elements are updatable and will be published on the Cambridge Core platform, with a low-priced print-on-demand option also available.
Each Element is approximately 25,000 words, allowing for more extensive development of theory and evidence and offering greater scope and depth than scholars typically have in journal publications. Authors can also write an Element on a shorter timeline than is feasible for a full scholarly book.
Submission Process
If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact Kai He at K.He@griffith.edu.au
Your proposal for Cambridge Elements in Indo-Pacific Security should include the following items: a title, research question(s), major arguments, an explanation of the originality and significance of your Element in relation to research and/or teaching on the subject, a brief outline of the structure of your Element, and a concise academic CV.
Editors:
Kai He is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. He was also a non-resident Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2022-2023), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010). He has authored or co-authored six books and edited or co-edited six volumes. Among his notable works are China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016) and Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific (Routledge 2009). His latest co-authored book, After Hedging: Hard Choices for the Indo-Pacific States between the US and China, was published in the Cambridge Elements series in International Relations in 2023.
Steve Chan is College Professor of Distinction (Emeritus) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His publications include twenty-two books and about two hundred articles and chapters. His most recent books are Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift: Implications for Competition between China and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War (Columbia University Press, 2023); Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2021; co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu); and Thucydides’s Trap? Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, and World Politics.
Rumi Aoyama is Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, and director of Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2005–2006), George Washington University (2016–2017), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (2021), and National University of Singapore (2022–2023). She has authored or co-authored ten books and edited or co-edited four volumes. Her book, Contemporary China’s Foreign Policy [Gendai chuugoku no gaikou] was honored with the 24th Masayoshi Ohira Foundation Memorial Prize. Her latest publications include Decoding the Rise of China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); A Diplomatic History of the People’s Republic of China (University of Tokyo Press, 2017); China and the Future of International Order (University of Tokyo Press, 2015); China’s Asia Policy in the Post-cold War Era (University of Tokyo Press, 2013).
Advisory Board:
- Amitav Acharya (American University)
- Dewi Fortuna Anwar (National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia)
- Mely Caballero-Anthony (Nanyang Technological University)
- Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford)
- Evelyn Goh (Australian National University)
- Deborah Larson (University of California, Los Angeles)
- T.V. Paul (McGill University)
- Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University)