The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World
The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World

Author: J.P.D. Dunbabin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1317892941

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This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern Africa, South East Asia and India, East Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. It concludes with a sustained analysis of the International System -- the functioning of international organizations and the global role of money and trade.

Cold Wars
Cold Wars

Author: Lorenz M. Lüthi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 775

ISBN-13: 1108418333

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A new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of the smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Where Great Powers Meet
Where Great Powers Meet

Author: David Shambaugh

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190914971

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Where Great Powers Meet explores the global competition for power between the United States and China. Focusing on Southeast Asia, David Shambaugh looks at how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the countries within it maneuver between the US and China and the degree to which they align with one or the other power. Not simply an analysis of the region's place within an evolving international system, Where Great Powers Meetprovides us with a comprehensive strategy that advances the American position while exploiting Chinese weaknesses.

American Foreign Relations Reconsidered
American Foreign Relations Reconsidered

Author: Gordon Martel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1134847254

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Brings together 12 scholars of US foreign relations. Each contributor provides a concise summary of an important theme in US affairs since the Spanish-American War. US policy process, economic interests, relations with the Third World, and the nuclear arms race have been highlighted.

The Cambridge History of the Cold War
The Cambridge History of the Cold War

Author: Melvyn P. Leffler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-03-25

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 0521837197

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This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.

Pacific Passage
Pacific Passage

Author: Warren I. Cohen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780231104074

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A study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.

Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973
Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973

Author: Robert S. Ross

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1684173590

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The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other’s policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.–China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart’s policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974

Author: Evelyn Goh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-22

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1139442767

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With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for reconciliation with Beijing. Instead, she applies a more historically sensitive approach that privileges contending official American constructions of China's identity and character. This book demonstrates that ideas of reconciliation with China were already being propagated and debated within official circles in the USA during the 1960s. It traces the related policy discourse and imagery, and examines their continuities and evolution into the early 1970s that facilitated Nixon's new policy.

The International Politics of Asia-Pacific, 1945-1995
The International Politics of Asia-Pacific, 1945-1995

Author: Michael Yahuda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1134932855

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This fully updated and revised edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook introduces students to the international politics of the Asia Pacific region since 1945. Divided into three parts, the first presents a chronological overview of developments since 1945, the new second part looks at the post-cold war period, while the third focuses on the policies of the US, the USSR/Russia, China and Japan in the region. Yahuda analyses politics in terms of global, regional, and local trends, combining narrative with analysis. This new edition features: * analysis of the economic crisis and the potential implications worldwide of East Asian economic recovery * a chapter on the emergence of East Asia as a significant force in world affairs, focusing on the role of lesser powers such as Indonesia and Malaysia * chapters considering prospects post-2000 and competing frameworks for security in the wake of nuclear tension between India and Pakistan * the strengths and weaknesses of US hegemony in the new world order.

Organizing the World
Organizing the World

Author: Galia Press-Barnathan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1135941939

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This book offers a conceptual framework that explains when and why a great power would choose to cooperate with smaller states via regional cooperation forums rather than in a bilateral setting.