Table of Contents

Introduction

Quad Plus- Shaping Relationships in the Indo-Pacific

Beijing, Quad and the ‘Quad Plus’

1. China’s Views of the Quad and Quad Plus Arrangements 2. Competition and Coalitions: The United States, Quad Plus and the Chinese Challenge in the Indo-Pacific 3. The ‘Quad Plus’ and India’s Pointed Alignment Strategy 4. Nurturing the ‘Quad Plus’ Formula: Institutional Perspective of Japan’s FOIP 5. Australia, New Zealand and the Quad Plus

The ‘Plus’ Perspectives

6. Fracturing Architecture? The Quad Plus and ASEAN Centrality in the Indo-Pacific 7. Britain in the Indo-Pacific – and the Quad Plus, or even a "Quint"? 8. The Quad Plus and South Korea’s Quest for Foreign Policy Autonomy 9. Israel, India and Quad Plus: Searching for Alternatives to Western Perspectives 10. France and the Quad Plus: Keeping Flexibility in the Indo-Pacific 11. Function over Form: Canada’s Bolting-in and Capabilities-led Approach to Quad Plus Engagement 12. The Indo-Pacific ‘Quad Plus’ at Atlantic Latin American Shores: Moment of Covet or Reckoning for Brazilian Foreign Policy?

A View from the Others

13. Russia’s Attitude to the Quad Plus: Troublesome Present, Hazy Future 14. Quad Plus: A Role for Indian Ocean Island States? 15. The Quad Plus proposition in a Middle Eastern context 16. The Quad Plus and Promoting International Connectivity: A Focus on the Makran Region

About the Author

Jagannath Panda is a research fellow and center coordinator for East Asia at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. He is the series editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Dr. Panda is an expert on China and Indo-Pacific security with a primary focus on East Asia: China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula.

Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs and director of the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers. Prior to standing up the journal, he was the acting director and managing editor of Air University Press and the acting dean of the Air Force Research Institute.