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Day Of Empire
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adminAmy Chua is one of the most talented political scientists in Yale University. But her books like “World on Fire,” written in 2003, tend to be alarmist tracts. Globalization and the promotion of freedom and democracy are said to foster ethnic re-galvanization; whereas groups that cannot gain from all these…
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The Future Of Freedom
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adminExcellent books are hard to come by. Either they are too wordy orpretentious. “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad,” written by Fareed Zakaria, who holds a BA degree in History from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, managed to strike a…
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China 1; United States And All Allies 0
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adminThe very title “China 1; United States and All Allies 0” is a quick give away that the author, James M. Fones II, sees the Sino-US relationship from the zero-sum standpoint. All gains acquired by China, would happen at the expense of the US, and everyone else. While this is…
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The War Of The World
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adminConflicts, either of low or high intensity , come with immense loss of human life and cost. But, if accumulated over a long period of time, spanning more than one hundred years, can these conflicts actually sap the energy of the West, leading to its terminal decline? Niall Ferguson, a…
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The Post-American World
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adminFrom the standpoint of Fareed Zakaria in “The Post American World,” the world is not an enigma. With emerging economies adopting various “killer apps”, to borrow the phrase coined by Niall Ferguson, countries once left behind by the United States and Group of Seven can attempt a strike back. China,…
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Powerplay – The Origins Of The American Alliance System In Asia
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admin“Why is there no NATO in Asia ?” has been asked and answered by various scholars, especially Donald Crone, Amitav Acharya, Muthiah Alagappa and now Victor D. Cha, a professor at Georgetown University. The issue is why the persistent interest to ask the same question repeatedly? More importantly, beyond the…
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ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Integration: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions
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adminThe editors in this book are old hands of ASEAN. Together Chia Siow Yee and Michael Plummers have had more than fifty years of looking at ASEAN. Thus, they are bound to write a thoughtful, sensible, and well-documented work on ASEAN. But ASEAN is also an entity that is based…
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The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
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admin“South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia,” as written by Bill Hayton, has got everything right, except, the fluid nature of the issue. South China Sea is often seen through the prism of a conflict, or, even a potential war involving China and the United States. But China,…
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Tangled Titans – The United States and China
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adminDavid Shambaugh knows China like the back of his hand. But this is China formed and made by the “epistemic communities” (a group of political scientists with the same causal beliefs). One of his first books, “The Beautiful Imperialist,” written in the late 1980s, was an attempt to explain the…
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Sino-Japanese Relations After The Cold War
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adminThe importance of Sino-Japanese relations is often lost on scholars in the West. Many tend to study China and Japan in separation. Edward Reischauer was one of the few exceptions. He knew Japan and China; as did Allen Whitting and Caroline Rose at the University of Leeds. Michael Yahuda, an…