The work demonstrated in the struggle for order hegemony hierarchy and transition in post cold war east asia is very ambitious not only does the author focus on the sino us rivalry and collaboration but she also covers behaviors exhibited by other powers japan south korea and asean countries evelyn goh attempts to capture the complicated realities of international relations in east asia in the post cold war era from an international society perspective provided by hedley . It finds that us hegemony has been established in east asia after the cold war mainly because of the complicity of key regional states but the new social compact also makes room for rising powers and satisfies smaller states insecurities the book controversially proposes that the east asian order is multi tiered and hierarchical led by the us but incorporating china japan and other states in the layers below it. The struggle for order hegemony hierarchy and transition in post cold war east asia evelyn goh abstract how has world order changed since the cold war ended do we live in an age of american empire or is global power shifting to the east with the rise of china arguing that existing ideas about balance of power and power transition are inadequate this book instead conceives of an . The struggle for order hegemony hierarchy and transition in post cold war east asia by goh evelyn oxford oxford university press 2013 288pp gbp3000 isbn 978019959936 3