Asia's Reckoning

出版者:Viking

作者:Richard McGregor

页数:416

出版时间:2017-9-5

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780399562679

图书标签:国际关系东亚历史国际政治海外中国研究RichardMcGregor中美中国

Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump’s disdain for America’s old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia’s Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart.

With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan—from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades—has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China—a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia's combined.

The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors: the United States would be involved on the side of Japan in any military conflict between the two countries. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor’s book takes us behind the headlines of his years reporting as the Financial Times’s Beijing and Washington bureau chief to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold its ground in Asia.

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作者曾是记者，非正规学术著作，但故事细节足够丰富，视角多元，语言生动诙谐，作为业余参考可读性很强。

So much baggage...

中日美外交关系一向是我很感兴趣的话题，书里有很多平时看不到的八卦历史

补记；第三年Asian Security论文参考;很细致的IR history

作者曾是记者，非正规学术著作，但故事细节足够丰富，视角多元，语言生动诙谐，作为业余参考可读性很强。