Foreword / Peter A. Gumataotao -- Introduction / Alexander L. Vuving -- Part I: Understanding the Big Picture. Philosophy and policy: why ideas will drive the Indo-Pacific / Scott D. McDonald -- Great power competition: lessons from the past, implications for the future / Alexander L. Vuving -- The fourth industrial revolution and its discontents: governance, big tech, and the digitization of geopolitics / Virginia Bacay Watson -- Surveillance technology challenges political culture of democratic states / Inez Miyamoto -- Societal violence against women and national insecurity: the need for gendered security / James M. Minnich -- Part II: The Changing Faces of Regional Security. Political violence in South Asia, 1995-2020 / Shyam Tekwani -- Twenty five years of terrorism and insurgency in Southeast Asia / Sam Mullins -- Inclusive governance: lessons from history / Saira Yamin --^The evolution of the U.S. alliance system in the Indo-Pacific since the Cold War's end / John Hemmings -- South Asia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: security implications and ways forward / Ann Anwar -- From the Blue Dot Network to the Blue Dot marketplace: a way to cooperate in strategic competition / Jerre V. Hansbrough -- Underwater competition in the Indo-Pacific / Mizuho Kajiwara -- Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and the impacts on maritime security / Ben Crowell and Wade Turvold -- Security implications of a state-driven approach to science and technology innovation / Ethan Allen -- One hundred seconds to midnight / Bill Wieninger -- Part III: Local Dynamics of Regional Security. Russia in the Pacific: strategic opportunity in the Far East / Wade Turvold -- The future of the Republic of Korea and United States alliance: fix it or lose it / James M. Minnich -- The fang-shou cycle in Chinese politics / Sungmin Cho --^Are India and China destined for war? Three future scenarios / Srini Sitaraman -- Has Myanmar become China's back door to the Indian Ocean? / Miemie Winn Byrd -- Taiwan's fight for international space / Michael C. Burgoyne