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
8 - Conclusions
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
Asia has replaced Europe as the principal area of instability and potential conflict.
Samuel Huntington, Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), 6 January 1999The security order of the Asia-Pacific is caught between an anachronistic Cold War framework and embryonic, untested regional approaches.
Ramesh Thakor, Asahi Evening News (Tokyo), 10 October 2000Today's international security requires economic peacekeeping as well as traditional military peacekeeping.
Akio Morita, The Atlantic, June 1993For over half a century the United States has remained at the heart of Asian-Pacific affairs. Its impact on the entire area has been vast and continuous, thereby ensuring that American behaviour has had a major impact on the foreign policies of every state in the vast region. While it would be difficult to point to any one single moment or document that might provide an over-arching design for the entire enterprise, it is perhaps permissible to review some of the salient points along this remarkable journey. The United States had been recognized as the predominant Western power in the Asia-Pacific region from at least the 1930s onwards, if not earlier, given its active role in securing the Washington naval treaties of 1921–22 and its efforts to restrain the continental expansion of Imperial Japan. It was only to be expected, therefore, that having won the Pacific War, the United States would wish to secure the region against future aggression and attempt to revive its economic fortunes to ensure political and social stability in a devastated and demoralized Asia.
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- The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945 , pp. 230 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002