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ISBN 10: 1482218402 ISBN 13: 9781482218404

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 2013

Riassunto

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published "America’s Pacific Century" in Foreign Policy magazine in November 2011, the administration was clearly indicating to domestic and international audiences that the United States is beginning a pivot toward the Asia-Pacific. Clinton’s article served as a spark for renewed interest in the nation’s Asia-Pacific strategy and American interests in the region.

The Asia-Pacific Century: Challenges and Opportunities looks to the future of the Asia-Pacific and examines a broad range of questions that focus on diplomatic, economic, and military challenges facing the region’s key players, with a particular focus on their relevance to the US military.

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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 advised national leadership on strategic implications of emerging technologies.

Dr. Kimberly Gill is an assistant professor, Department of Political Science, and director, Master of Public Administration Program, Columbus State University. She serves as a mediator for the Third Judicial District of Georgia and is a court-appointed special advocate. She also assists the US Army Sniper School, Fort Benning, Georgia, in course development.

Dr. Sanu Kainikara is the airpower strategist at the Air Power Development Centre of the Royal Australian Air Force and also a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of many books and is a former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force who retired as a Group Captain after 21 years of commissioned service. He has two bachelors’ degrees, a master’s degree in defence and strategic studies from India’s University of Madras, and a PhD in international politics from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is currently conducting his PhD research on the law of armed conflict and military strategy at the Australian National University.

Justin Logan is the director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is an expert on US grand strategy, international relations theory, and American foreign policy. His current research focuses on the shifting balance of power in Asia―specifically with regard to China―and the formation of US grand strategy under unipolarity. He has lectured on a range of foreign policy issues to the J-5 (Strategic Plans and Policy), on Capitol Hill, and at universities throughout the United States and world.

Dr. Adam Lowther is a research professor at the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI), Maxwell AFB, Alabama. The editor of Terrorism’s Unanswered Questions and the author of Americans and Asymmetric Conflict: Lebanon, Somalia, and Afghanistan, he has also published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Joint Force Quarterly, and Strategic Studies Quarterly. Dr. Lowther was an assistant professor of political science at Arkansas Tech University and Columbus State University. He served in the US Navy aboard the USS Ramage; at the office of the commander in chief, US Naval Forces, Europe; and with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 17.

Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi. Dr. Rajagopalan joined ORF after five years as assistant director at the National Security Council Secretariat. Previously, she was a research officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, as well as a visiting professor, Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in early 2012. She is the author of three books on Chinese, US, and Asia-Pacific military strategy. Her latest book, Clashing Titans: Military Strategy and Insecurity among Asian Great Powers, was published in 2012.

Contenuti:

Why Asia Matters; Dr. John P. Geis II
Introduction
The "Asian Tigers," Pandas, and Elephants
Getting International Trade "Strait"
A Place Where It Is Natural to Have Problems
A Military Race . . . but to Where?

Thinking about the Asia-Pacific; Dr. Adam Lowther
Introduction
The Delphi Method and Analysis
Focus Group Analysis
Conclusion

Top Five Asia-Pacific Economies: Integration, Conflict, Vulnerability, and Crisis, 2010–2020; Dr. Brooks B. Robinson
Abstract
Introduction
Bottom Line Up Front
Economic Integration
Economic Integration and Military Conflict
Economic Integration in a Game-Theoretic Framework
Economic Vulnerability
Impact of an Asian Crisis on the Global Economy
Conclusion

Chinese Soft Economic Warfare; Dr. Chad Dacus
Introduction
Peace and Prosperity
Soft Economic Warfare
The US Response

Steaming up the Hudson: China, the United States, and the Problem of Misperception; Prof. Simon Reich
Introduction
Why Do Americans Fear China’s Growth into a Great Power?
Is This Sense of Alarm Justified?
What Are the Consequences of the Current Trend in US-Chinese Relations?

The Contradictions of US China Policy: Implications for the US Air Force; Justin Logan
Abstract
Introduction
US Policy toward China
The Problems with US Policy
Changes for US China Policy
Potential Objections to the Alternative Strategy
Conclusion

Shadow Dancing in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: China, India, and America; Dr. Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Introduction
The Theatre Stage: The Indian Ocean
The South China Sea (Nanyang) and China’s Southeast Asia Neighbors
The Pacific Ocean
The Players (the Actors)
Conclusion

US Role in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Regional View; Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Introduction
Regional Perceptions of the US Role in the Asia-Pacific
As China Rises, Will Its Neighbors
Bandwagon or Balance?
Conclusion

The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Viewpoint; Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Introduction
Australia’s Strategic Interests
Factors Affecting Australia’s Strategic Outlook
The Role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific Region
The Status of South Pacific Nations
The Shift in Global Economic Activity to the Asia-Pacific
An Australian Perspective on Its Security
Conclusion

Conflict and Diplomacy in the South China Sea; Dr. Sheldon W. Simon
Abstract
Introduction
Conflict and Diplomacy: Alternative Approaches to the South China Sea
Multilateral Diplomacy
The United States, the Code of Conduct, and South China Sea Diplomacy
The United States and the Philippines: A Special South China Sea Relationship
Other Significant External Actors: Japan and India Implications for the United States

Nuclear-Strategic Asia; Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala
Introduction
Policy Problems and Issues
States and Forces
Conclusion

Aspects of Korean Unification: Planning for US Involvement on the Korean Peninsula; Dr. Kimberly Gill and Dr. Thomas P. Dolan
Introduction
Background of Korean Separation
Scenarios for Korean Unification
Cost Estimates of Korean Unification
Why Germany Is the Wrong Model for Korean Unification
Conclusion

Building Positive Relationships in the Asia-Pacific; Dr. Adam Lowther
Introduction
Why the Asia-Pacific Matters
China
Airpower in the Asia-Pacific
Conclusion

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• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482218402
• ISBN 13: 9781482218404
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 284
• Redattore: Lowther Adam B.