Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world order—security, trade, environment, and public health.Contributors

Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California at Berkeley

C. Randall Henning, American University

Keisuke Iida, University of Tokyo

Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide

David Kang, University of Southern California

Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California

Min Gyo Koo, Seoul National University

Kerstin Lukner, University of Duisburg-Essen

Takamichi Tam Mito, Kwansei Gakuin University

James Clay Moltz, Naval Postgraduate School

Saadia M. Pekkanen, University of Washington

Kim DoHyang Reimann, Georgia State University

Kellee S. Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ming Wan, George Mason University