The Making of the Asia Pacific
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: From ‘Pacific Asia’ to ‘Asia Pacific’
The Politics of Representation
What Discourses Do
About This Book
2. The Desire for Essence
State of the Art: Security, Sovereignty and Subjectivity
Art of the State: What States Make
Ideas All the Way Down
Conclusion: Beyond Essentialism and Rationalism?
3. Knowledge Networks as Agents of Representation
Debating Epistemic Agency
Knowledge Networks as Instrumental Agents
Knowledge Networks as 'Abject Beings'
Epistemic Agency as Political Prerogative
Knowledge Networks and Their Representational Practices
A Strategy in Radical Constructivism
How Texts Work
Conclusion: Towards a Radical Constructivism
4. Representing the ‘Asia Pacific’
'Asia Pacific' : Whose and What?
A Realm of Abjection
Presupposition
Predication
Placement / Positioning of Subjects
'It's Europe, stupid!'
A Realm of Uncertainity and Opportunity
Presupposition
Predication
Placement / Positioning of Subjects
Conclusion: Whither Asia Pacific Subjectivity?
5. Representing Sovereign States
The State as a Constructed and Contested Identity
Presupposition
Predication
Placement / Positioning of Subjects
The China Threat and the Writing of 'America'
Conclusion: Are States What States Make of Them?
6. Representing the ‘In/Human’ Faces of Asia Pacific Security
Asia Pacific Security: Reset or Redux?
Non-Traditionalising Security: Expanding State Purview and Control?
Humanising Security: Who's Responsible?
From 'Right' to 'Responsibility' : Re-visioning Sovereignty?
(En)Countering Terrorism: Abjection and Agency at the 'Second Front'
Conclusion: Domesticating Security, Sovereignty and Subjectivity
7. Representing the ‘Authority’ of Knowledge Networks
Deconstructing the Imagined Community
Self-Formation
Self-Governance
Track 2 Discourse: Revolution or Re-incitement?
Sovereignty-Subjectivity Nexus: Reinforcement or Reinstatement?
Domesticating the Regional Security Discourse
Domesticating Human Rights Discourse
Conclusion: The Precarious Art of Self-Representation
8. Conclusion: A Plea in Three Parts
The Persistent Allure of Essence
The Scholar/Statesman Paradox
An Invitation to Play
Notes
Bibliography
Index