CHARTING AMERICA S COLD WAR WATERS IN EAST ASIA. Sovreignty, Local Interests, and International Security.

Chen, Kuan-jen.

ISBN 10: 1009418750 / ISBN 13: 9781009418751

Published by C.U.P., 2024., 2024

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1st edition. 8vo. xv + 333pp. Maps. Very good in original pictorial black boards lettered in white. ISBN 9781009418751 US$12.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CHARTING AMERICA S COLD WAR WATERS IN EAST ASIA. Sovreignty, Local Interests, and International Security.
• Publisher: C.U.P., 2024.
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009418750
• ISBN 13: 9781009418751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY, MILITARY & TRANSPORT

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kuan-Jen Chen is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research focuses on Cold War history, modern East Asia, and US foreign policy.