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Pacific power paradox : American statecraft and the fate of the Asian Peace /

"After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this "Asian peac...

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Main Authors: Jackson, Van, 1982- (Author)
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven, CT :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Peace-building > East Asia.
Peace-building > Southeast Asia.
Diplomatic relations.
Military policy.
Peace-building.
East Asia > Foreign relations.
Southeast Asia > Foreign relations.
East Asia > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > East Asia.
Southeast Asia > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Southeast Asia.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1953.
United States > Military policy.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
East Asia.
Southeast Asia.
United States.
Summary: "After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this "Asian peace," and what is America's role in it? Van Jackson argues that because Washington takes for granted that the United States is a force for good, successive presidencies have failed to see how their statecraft impedes more durable forms of security and inadvertently embrittles peace. At times, the United States has been the region's bulwark against instability, but America has been a threat to Asian peace as much as it has been its guarantor. By grappling with how America fits into the Asian story, Jackson shows how regional stability has diminished because of U.S. choices, and why America's margin for geopolitical error is less now than ever before." --
Carrier Form: xii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300257281
0300257287
Index Number: DS33
CLC: D833.027.12
D831.027.12
Call Number: D831.027.12/J145
Contents: The Asian peace as a guide to statecraft -- Founding the Asian peace -- Conservative domination of Asia -- A unipolar imperium and its discontents -- The war on terror versus great-power competition -- Pivoting in posthegemony Asia -- The risk-wager imbalance of the Trump era -- Searching for an Indo-Pacific peace.

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