Power and Primacy: A Recent History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific

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Today the Asia-Pacific region stands on the verge of major change, with centuries of western dominated regional order being seriously challenged and quite possibly nearing its end. The emergence of a potential new order dominated by regional rather than extra-regional powers - an «Asia for the Asiatics» in the words of Japan's pan-Asian scholars - means it is now more than ever essential to understand the history of the current western-dominated system, the full implications should it continue and the nature of the West's intentions towards the region.

This book undertakes the task of elucidating the complex and little-known history of western intervention in the Asia-Pacific, providing information critical to understanding contemporary developments

The author is an expert on Asia-Pacific international relations, recent history and geopolitics.

CONTENTS: Part I War with Japan and its Aftermath: How Western Powers Met New Challenges to their Dominance in the Pacific - Japanese Empire: The Rise and Fall of Asia's First Independent Industrial Power and How It Undermined Western Hegemony in the Pacific - The War Against a Defeated Japan: Elimination of a Threat to Western Hegemony in Asia - Emergence of a People's Republic in China: Efforts to Undermine the Rise of an Independent Asian Power - Sukarnoism and the Rise and Fall of an Independent Indonesia: Wars both Overt and Covert to Return an Asian Power to Western Clienthood - America in the Philippines: How the United States Established a Colony and Later Neo-Colony in the Pacific - Vietnam's Thirty Years of War - Intervention and Conflict in Korea - The Outbreak of War in Korea - The Korean War: Part I - Meeting a New Challenge to Western Regional Primacy - The Korean War: Part II - Mass Destruction - The Korean War: Conduct of Western Militaries on the Ground - The U.S. Military in South Korea: Comfort Women and Destitution - Targeting North Korea: Cognitive Dissonance and Information War - A Shifting Balance of Power and the West's Role in Asia Today - Modern Japan and Western Policy in Asia - Economic War on Asia: South Korea and the Asian Tigers - Asia Divided: Unifying Economic Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific as a Threat to Western Primacy - The Russian Factor in the Asia-Pacific - Western Militaries in the Asia Pacific Today: Part I - China's Rise and the End of the «Anglo Saxon Lake» - Western Militaries in the Asia Pacific Today: Part II - China's Twenty-first-century Confrontation with the West - North Korea: Nuclear Weapons and Ideology.