Indo-Pacific Region: The Rise of “Quad” and Future Clash of Civilizations

Siti Malikatul Mushowwiroh, Alicia Anzani

2018

Abstract

The balance of power and geostrategic competition that occurs in Indo-Pacific region currently is a reflection for the rise of China’s power which pottentially could be a new hegemonic actor in the broader regional order. This phenomenon has led to the resurgence of Quadrilateral Cooperation (Quad) alliance, run by the United States, India, Japan, and Australia by forming steps together in coordinating the Indo-Pacific regional eshtablishment goals as a free, transparent, and based on international law area. The momentum of Quad cooperation that ignore China’s membership and implicitly framed in the axis of democracy is certainly lead to the conflict escalation, where China has gradually succeeded in using their growing economic power as well as the strategic conditions of its military forces to spread the great influence in Indo-Pacific geopolitics. This condition brings China is regarded as a major threat and indirectly creates problems that lead to a ideological competition in this region. Thus, this research aims to describe the dynamics of existing problems in Indo-Pacific region by orienting focus discussion on How is the state of Indo-Pacific region along with the existence of Quad Cooperation and China’s response that could trigger the occurence of clash of civilizations?. This research is a descriptive-analysis research by using the regionalism approach and clash of civilizations theory. The research result is going to indicate that geopolitical governance and Quad cooperation in Indo-Pacific that should have a good impact precisely create for new conflicts within the region.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mushowwiroh S. and Anzani A. (2018). Indo-Pacific Region: The Rise of “Quad” and Future Clash of Civilizations. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 151-157. DOI: 10.5220/0010274500002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Siti Malikatul Mushowwiroh and Alicia Anzani},
title={Indo-Pacific Region: The Rise of “Quad” and Future Clash of Civilizations},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={151-157},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010274500002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Indo-Pacific Region: The Rise of “Quad” and Future Clash of Civilizations
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Mushowwiroh S.
AU - Anzani A.
PY - 2018
SP - 151
EP - 157
DO - 10.5220/0010274500002309