Power and Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific: 2023 Updated Edition

ISBN-13: 9781800799318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 490 str.

A. B. Abrams

Opis

This book undertakes the task of elucidating the complex and little-known history of Western intervention in the Asia-Pacific, providing information critical to understanding contemporary developments.

Spis treści

Contents: Destroying the Japanese Empire: How Asia's First Industrial Power Undermined Western Control - The War Against a Defeated Japan: Punishing a Challenger to the West's Regional Hegemony - Undermining China: America's Twenty- Year War to Destroy the People's Republic - The Rise and Fall of an Independent Indonesia: A Twenty- Year War Effort to Restore Western Control - America in the Philippines: Establishing a Colony and Later Neo- Colony in the Pacific - War in Korea: A New Frontier for American Empire - The Desolation of Korea - Vietnam's Long War: How a Thirty- Year Assault to Impose Western Control Ravaged a Nation - Japan After the War: From Primary Challenger to Key Upholder of Western Hegemony - Economic War on Asia: Crushing the Region's Rising Economies - Asia Divided: Unifying Initiatives as a Threat to Western Primacy - Pivot to Asia and China's Rise: Can a Western- Dominated Order be Perpetuated?

O autorze

A. B. Abrams is the author of «China and America's Tech War from AI to 5G: The Struggle to Shape the Future of World Order» (Rowman) and «Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years at War with American Power» (Clarity). He has published widely on international security and geopolitics with a focus on East Asia, and holds related Master's degrees from the University of London.