The Asia-Pacific Century: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9780367379544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Adam B. Lowther

Opis

This book is the result of a year-long study conducted by the Air Force Research Institute concerning Air Force strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. By addressing issues from economic integration to a potential nuclear arms race and key regional actors (China, North Korea, India), it provides a broad perspective on the topics that will shape the future of US involvement in the region. These include the areas of nuclear proliferation, international criminal activity, terrorism, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, natural disasters, and more.

Spis treści

Why Asia Matters. Top Five Asia-Pacific Economies: Integration, Conflict, Vulnerability, and Crisis, 2010–2020. Chinese Soft Economic Warfare. Steaming up the Hudson: China, the United States, and the Problem of Misperception. The Contradictions of US China Policy: Implications for the US Air Force. Shadow Dancing in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: China, India, and America. US Role in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Regional View. The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Viewpoint. Conflict and Diplomacy in the South China Sea. Nuclear-Strategic Asia. Aspects of Korean Unification: Planning for US Involvement on the Korean Peninsula. Building Positive Relationships in the Asia-Pacific. Abbreviations.

O autorze

Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala is a distinguished professor of political science at Penn State Brandywine. He is the author of numerous works in the field of national security studies, defense policy, nuclear arms control, deterrence, and other subjects. Dr. Cimbala is an award-winning Penn State teacher. His recent publications include Nuclear Weapons in the Information Age (Continuum International Publishing Company, 2012) and his edited volume, Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy (Ashgate Publishers, 2012).

Dr. Chad Dacus is a research professor of economics at the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI), Maxwell AFB, Alabama. His current research interests include defense acquisition, economics and strategy, and cyberspace risk modeling. Before joining the AFRI staff, Dr. Dacus worked for the Center for Naval Analyses as a research analyst in readiness and infrastructure and then as a field representative to US Fleet Forces Command.

Dr. Thomas P. Dolan is a professor and chairman, Department of Political Science, and chairman, Master of Public Administration Program, Columbus State University. Rated as a naval flight officer and mission commander in the P-3 Orion, he also served as an intelligence analyst with the Combined Forces Command, US Forces, Korea, and with the War Plans Division, Forces Command.

Dr. John P. Geis II is director of research, Air Force Research Institute, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He is a retired US Air Force colonel with an Air Force career spanning training and combat operations. He flew the T-37, AT-38B, T-43, two variants of the F-111, and the AC-130H special operations gunship and was director of long-range planning for all US Air Force special forces. Dr. Geis served for eight years as director, Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology, where he advise