Introduction -- Conceptualizing the bilateral-multilateral security nexus -- Bridging alliances and Asia-Pacific multilateralism -- Stretching the Japan-US alliance -- The US-Philippines alliance: moving beyond bilateralism? -- Thailand's security policy: bilateralism or multilateralism? -- The role of the five power defence arrangements in Southeast Asian security architecture -- Territorial and maritime jurisdiction disputes in East Asia: comparing bilateral and multilateral approaches -- The bilateral-multilateral nexus in Asia's defense diplomacy -- The rise of China and the transformmation of Asia-Pacific security architecture -- Alliances and order in the "Asian century" -- Conceptualizing the relationship between bilateral and multilateral security approaches in East Asia: a great power regional order framework

1. Pacific Area cooperation
2. Asian cooperation
3. National secarity -- Asia
4. National security -- Pacific Area
5. Security
6. international -- Asia
7. Security
8. international -- Pacific Area
9. Pacific Area -- Foreign relations
10. Asia -- Foreign relations
11. national security
12. regional cooperation