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Charting America's Cold War waters in East Asia : sovereignty, local interests, and international security
Title
Charting America's Cold War waters in East Asia : sovereignty, local interests, and international security / Kuan-Jen Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
ISBN
9781009418737 (ebook)
9781009418751 (hardback)
9781009418775 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary
Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the 'oceanic' lens as a structural imperative in grand strategic thinking. Despite extensive scholarship on postwar US-East Asia relations, questions about the relationship between maritime space, national sovereignty, and geopolitics have not been fully explored. Drawing on archives in Chinese, English, and Japanese, Chen uses the western Pacific as a historical platform, illustrating the relationship between the geopolitical value of the sea and the strategic deliberations of American and East-Asian decision making. The recent deterioration of US-China relations has turned maritime East Asia into a powder keg, with no country in the region able to remain neutral. By anchoring today's maritime East Asia in the past, this book traces the evolution of historical factors that led to the current status quo in the western Pacific, and shows the origins of controversial issues in the region.
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Cambridge core frontlist 2024.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2024
Series
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Contents
Finding a local partner in postwar maritime East Asia
The creation of a mainland-based forward strategy
Vying for Top Dog : the Navy-Army struggle in maritime East Asia
Termination of the mainland-based forward strategy
The 1950 crises and America's changing posture of defence
The making of a new maritime strategy
The International Law of the Seas and America's unreliable partners
America's strange bedfellows in the international arena
Fishing for protein in Cold War East Asia
Jostling for position : Black Gold, natural resource exploration and shifting political contours.
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