Bush and Asia: America's Evolving Relations with East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415383332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 288 str.

Mark Beeson

Opis

Bringing together a number of recognized international experts, this book considers the impact of changes in American foreign policy on the East Asian region, as well as the evolving nature of American policy itself. Specific case studies consider America's relations with the most important countries of the region, including China, a potential strategic rival, Japan, still the second largest economy in the world, and Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. These case studies and others are complemented with more theoretical and thematic considerations of the nature of American hegemony, its historical links to the region, security policy, economic ties, and American attitudes toward emerging East Asian regionalism. Bush and Asia provides a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the Bush administration's relations with what will be the twenty-first century's most dynamic and strategically significant region.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. American Ascendancy: Conceptualizing Contemporary Hegemony  2. The United States and East Asia: How Much Does the Bush Revolution Matter?  3. US Economic Relations with East Asia: From Hegemony to Complex Interdependence?  4. The US and Asian Regionalism  5. Bush and Asia: The Evolving Strategic Context  Cases: 6. China’s Response to the Bush Doctrine: Four More Years  7. Japan and the Bush Agenda: Alignment of Divergence?  8. Thailand and the United States: Beyond Hegemony?  9. Bush and the Philippines After 9/11: Hegemony, Mutual Opportunism and Democratic Retreat  10. The United States and Indonesia: Arrogance Past and Present  11. Malaysia and the United States: Rejecting Dominance, Embracing Engagement  12. The Contradictions of Hawk-Engagement: US Security Policy Towards Korea in the Bush Era  13. With Friends Like These: Reassessing the Australia-US Relationship  Bibliography   Index