Asia, America, and the Transformation of GeopoliticsCambridge University Press, 2007 M11 5 American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and US foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business experience, he argues that obsolete Cold War attitudes tie the US increasingly to an otherwise isolated Japan and obscure the reality that a US-Chinese bicondominium now manages most Asian issues. Military priorities risk polarizing the region unnecessarily, weaken the economic relationships that engendered American preeminence, and ironically enhance Chinese influence. As a result, US influence in Asia is declining. Overholt disputes the argument that democracy promotion will lead to superior development and peace, and forecasts a new era in which Asian geopolitics could take a drastically different shape. Covering Japan, China, Russia, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Korea, and South-East Asia, Overholt offers invaluable insights for scholars, policy-makers, business people, and general readers. |
Contenido
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 11 |
PostCold War Developments and Architectural Changes | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE | 33 |
Regional Trends | 39 |
The New Phase of the Asian Economic Miracle | 48 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 63 |
PostBust Foreign Policy | 76 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 223 |
Cold War Images and PostCold War Policy Anomalies | 230 |
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The Perils of Dominant Military Priorities | 238 |
The Need for an Attitude Transplant | 261 |
Cold War II | 270 |
U S Disengagement | 278 |
Crisis of Globalization | 287 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 139 |
Korea | 154 |
Southeast Asia | 169 |
CHAPTER | 187 |
Russia and China 214 | 196 |
CHAPTER | 295 |
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Pasajes populares
Página xv - We shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us, or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security and the security of the region as a whole.
Página xiii - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Página xiii - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Página xv - Third, in cases involving other types of aggression, we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.
Página xvi - The Japanese were the most alien enemy the United States had ever fought in an allout struggle. In no other war with a major foe had it been necessary to take into account such exceedingly different habits of acting and thinking.
Página xvi - Russia before us in 1905, we were fighting a nation fully armed and trained which did not belong to the Western cultural tradition. Conventions of war which Western nations had come to accept as facts of human nature obviously did not exist for the Japanese.