Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1945–1950
- 2 War: Korea, 1950–1953
- 3 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1953–1960
- 4 War: Vietnam, 1960–1975
- 5 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1975–1989
- 6 Post-Cold War: Asia-Pacific, 1989–2000
- 7 Future: Asia-Pacific, 2001–2020
- 8 Conclusions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Post-Cold War: Asia-Pacific, 1989–2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1945–1950
- 2 War: Korea, 1950–1953
- 3 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1953–1960
- 4 War: Vietnam, 1960–1975
- 5 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1975–1989
- 6 Post-Cold War: Asia-Pacific, 1989–2000
- 7 Future: Asia-Pacific, 2001–2020
- 8 Conclusions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
America today is by any measure the world's unchallenged military and economic power, having completed the first peacetime expansion of our global reach since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. The world counts on us to be a catalyst of coalitions, a broker of peace, a guarantor of global financial stability. We are widely seen as the country best placed to benefit from globalization.
Samuel Berger, national security adviser to President Clinton, Foreign Affairs, November 2000Japan is our principal friend, ally and partner – not China. That doesn't mean we are not anxious to improve our relations with China.
Ambassador Thomas Foley, Asahi Evening News (Tokyo), 11 December 2000Is America going to end its presence in Asia and listen to its own interests? Or is it going to continue to face resistance if it were to intervene too much? But there is also a dilemma in this region, that if America were to abandon Asia completely, it would create numerous problems.
Yamamoto Mitsuru, panel discussion on China in the twenty-first century, Tokyo, November 1994The End of the USSR
The collapse of the Soviet empire and then the sudden demise of the Soviet Union astounded the world. The speed and finality of this process caught nearly everyone off guard. Few Great Powers have surrendered their dominions and then committed suicide in quite such a dramatic and unexpected manner. The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989; less than a year later Germany was reunified and by December 1991 the USSR was no more.
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- The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945 , pp. 181 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002