Volume 79, Issue 4 (August 2025)

ISSN: 1035-7718

Content:

1. Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering inthe Indo-Pacific

2. China’s coalition-building in the Indo-Pacific: strategiesof connectivity and association

3. American coalition building of the US-led security network inthe Indo-Pacific: US influence-building measures

4. China’s conception of regional security order: an analysis ofDefence White Papers from 2010 to 2019

5. Narrating the other to one’s own: domestic legitimation andpolitics of exclusion in US–China relations

6. Australian agency and the China–US contest for supremac

7. How Indonesia and Vietnam navigate coalitional networks inthe Indo-Pacific

8. South Korea’s alignment shift under the competitionbetween coalitional hegemonies: elite ideology, legitimation,and role conception