Asia category: 8064 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
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,...
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
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,...
Casino Industry in Asia Pacific
Development, Operation, and Impact
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...
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
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...
Asia's Reckoning
China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
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...
Stan Stumble
Central Asia Travel Humour
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...
East Asia at the Center
Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
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...
by Timo Kivimäki
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1995
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,...
America's Strategy in Southeast Asia
From Cold War to Terror War
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...
by Donald E. Weatherbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
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...
Regionalism in Southeast Asia
To foster the political will
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...
Engineering Asia
Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
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...
by James R. Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
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...