Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Contested Multilateralism 2.0 and Regional Order Transition (Kai He) SECTION 1: DEBATING REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS Chapter 2: Multilateralism and Regional Order in Contested Asia (Nick Bisley) Chapter 3: Disconnecting from the Region: The Asia-Pacific Minus the US? (T. J. Pempel) Chapter 4: Minilateral Security’s Relevance to US Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: Challenges and Prospects (William Tow) Chapter 5: Asia’s Competing Multilateral Initiatives: Quality Versus Quantity (Mark Beeson) SECTION 2: REGIONAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR Chapter 6: China and the New Institutional Balancing in the Indo-Pacific: Challenging or Conforming to the International Order? (Jingdon Yuan) Chapter 7: Japan’s Role Conception in Multilateral Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific (Hidetaka Yoshimatsu) Chapter 8: South Korea’s Role Conception and Strategies for Multilateralism: A ‘Balance of Role’ Analysis (Jaechun Kim and William Kang) Chapter 9: MIKTA: A Case Study of Australian Multilateralism (Melissa Conley Tyler) Chapter 10: ASEAN and Multilateralism 2.0: Locating ASEAN Centrality within the FOIP and the BRI (See Seng Tan) Index

‘Assembling a team of leading scholars, Kai He and his colleagues have convincingly argued that "contested multilateralism 2.0" is the key to understanding the new security dynamics in Asia. A must read for all students who care about the future of Asia and multilateralism.’ - Shiping Tang, distinguished professor, Fudan University and author of The Social Evolution of International Politics‘Regional and international institutions in East Asia have been changing their roles, functions and geographical scope along with radical power shifts in East Asian politics. Institutions have become more important tools for national foreign policies and for creating a new regional and international order. Professor He’s new edited book contributes to our understanding of this new phenomenon both theoretically and empirically, by putting together different theoretical perspectives and national policy orientations of the major countries in the region. I recommend this book to both researchers and policy practitioners who are interested in, and deal with, this important region.’ - Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan