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Cover of Asia-Pacific: A Strategic Assessment - China, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia - Territorial Disputes, Senkaku Islands, Economic Development, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014

This Strategic Studies Institute paper provides a timely assessment of the geostrategic significance of Asia-Pacific. The monograph is also a thought-provoking analysis of the U.S. strategic shift toward the region and its implications. The author judiciously offers the following key points. First,...
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Asia's Cauldron

The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.** Over the last decade,...
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Casino Industry in Asia Pacific

Development, Operation, and Impact

by Kaye Sung Chon, Cathy Hc Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

This single volume gives you comprehensive information on Asia-Pacific gaming! Casino Industry in Asia Pacific: Development, Operation, and Impact is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive review of the gaming industry in various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This valuable resource thoroughly...
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Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia

Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia

by Taizo Miyagi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revolution, and later by the Cold War and civil war, has now been transformed into the world’s most economically dynamic region. What caused this change...
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Asia's Reckoning

China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

by Richard McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

**A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “An excellent...
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Stan Stumble

Central Asia Travel Humour

by Narendra Simone
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

Competing in a race to reach 100 countries and a quest to find the perfect wine brought the one who must always be obeyed and I to Central Asia. Our journey started in Kazakhstan that dates back to the Stone Age, a prehistoric period characterized by the use of stone tools. It was only in the beginning...
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East Asia at the Center

Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World

by Warren I. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000

A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive...
Cover of The Long Peace of East Asia
by Timo Kivimäki
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

The annual number of battle deaths from interstate and intra-state conflicts in East Asia has declined by 95% since 1979. During the past three decades, East Asia has been more peaceful than Europe, the Americas or any continent, in terms of battle deaths per capita. When generating theories on peace...
Cover of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1995

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking,...
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America's Strategy in Southeast Asia

From Cold War to Terror War

by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006

Geography encompasses everything from the local—where human beings live, work, and travel—to metageographies like nations and regions. James A. Tyner's inventive and multidisciplinary ideas on geography similarly range from the personal—his father's experience in the military during the Vietnam...
Cover of Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations
by Donald E. Weatherbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008

Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Historically, U.S. policy and diplomacy with Southeast Asia is defined by U.S. interests in the region, whether it's maintaining free lanes...
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Regionalism in Southeast Asia

To foster the political will

by Nicholas Tarling
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects...
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Engineering Asia

Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order

by
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent...
Cover of Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
by James R. Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor--are...
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