Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.

Kai He is a Professor of International Relations in the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2020) and a Visiting Chair Professor of International Relations at Nankai University, China (2018-2021).

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