Overview

This volume asks whether the Asia Pacific region can preserve order and stability while managing a strategic transformation.

The assessments assembled in this volume broadly confirm the judgement that the Asia Pacific continued over the past year to deplete its most precious asset: the confident expectation that the region could preserve order and stability while managing a strategic transformation of historic proportions.

Inaugurated in 2007, this is the ninth annual CRSO volume. The CRSO brings expert analysis to bear on critical security issues facing the region and points to policy-relevant alternatives for Track One (official) and Track Two (non-official) to advance multilateral regional security cooperation. The views in the CRSO 2016 do not represent those of any Member committee or other institution and are the responsibility of the individual authors and the Editor. Charts and images in the CRSO 2016 do not necessarily reflect the views of the chapter authors.