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Asian Waters : The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley (2018, Hardcover)

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PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-101468314785

ISBN-139781468314786

eBay Product ID (ePID)239870994

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Book TitleAsian Waters : the Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeopolitics, Asia / General, Asia / China, World / Asian

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorHumphrey Hawksley

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight18.6 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.1 in

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ReviewsHawksley' s writing style is accessibleeven when his subject grows more complex, ranging from geographic diversity tonarration about history and politics. This book is a helpful primer to betterunderstand the tools available to those formulating the South China Sea policy.Whether it is navigating on the political waves in East Asia, or exploring thegreat power status, the book offers a generous insight. , In Asian Waters, Hawksley's latest and his best book to date . . . more than just an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the region awaits the reader. . . . For both students and practitioners of foreign policy, his book is a must read., Asian Waters . . . recently became my ideal travel companion on a long flight to Australia, en route to the South China Sea. For any other reader hoping to navigate those troubled waters, or seeking a broad overview of the geopolitical fault lines in Asia, Hawksley's book provides an excellent guide., Asian Waters is a timely, detailed and balanced examination of one of the crucial geo-political fault-lines of the twenty-first century. Its insights and analysis accurately map the complexity of the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the choices open to policy-makers and a range of outcomes that could lead to cooperation, confrontation or conflict., Day by day the inherent tension between Chinese strategic ambition, American desire to rule the waves, Asian neighbors' territorial claims and the panoply of international law and conventions moves closer to snapping point. The South China Sea is the place where the legacies of the 20th century come smack into confrontation with the new realities of the 21st. Asian Waters deserves to be widely read and debated, all over the world., Humphrey Hawksley has longand rich experience of life in Asia, and has used this to inform this lucid,lively account of the frontier if Chinese aspirations--the region in which itsits. It is here that the true face of Chinese power is being revealed--thewaters of Asia. There are fewer better guides to this than Mr. Hawksley., Informative and thought-provoking and will be of interest to anyone interested in Asia, contemporary affairs, national security issues, and foreign policy., With his solid, on-the-ground experience and incisive analysis derived from decades of first rate reportage, Humphrey Hawksley provides new ways of seeing and understanding the shifting balance of world power, a change of monumental significance for this century. Asian Waters seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history. His conclusions are surprising and often disturbing, but always based on the evidence. This book is a must-read., Humphrey Hawksley is without doubt a master storyteller. . . . Great power politics will define Asia's future path. But in order to see what may lie ahead, it is critical to understand the people, the personalities, and the psychologies that drive the decision-making processes. Hawksley's ability to do just that is second to none., Hawksley has a knack for delivering pointed arguments and parallels amid a concise array of key historical events., A readable and very well-informed guide to an area of real tension in the early decades of this century., Humphrey Hawksley spent decades in Asia's many trouble spots. In Asian Waters, he now focuses his immense skills at forensic political analysis to dissect 21st century Asia's latest trouble spot, the South China Sea, where a rising and increasingly assertive China questions the international order based on the rule of law. A fascinating read., [Asian Waters] provides a clear introduction to the subject of Chinese efforts to expand the country's sovereignty into the islands of the South China Sea. . . . This volume is informative and thought provoking and will be of interest to anyone interested in Asia, contemporary affairs, national security issues, and foreign policy., Asian Waters plays a critical role in defining India's importance in the evolving geo-strategic matrix. . . . To understand the new Indo-Pacific region, Asian Waters is a must read.

Synopsis"Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history." --James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy Council In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies. The lightning rods of conflict are remote reefs and islands from which China has created military bases in the 1.5-million-square-mile expanse of the South China Sea, a crucial world trading route that this rising world power now claims as its own. No other Asian country can take on China alone. In Asian Waters , award-winning foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley breaks down the politics--and tensions--that he has followed through this region for years. Reporting on decades of political developments, he has witnessed China's rise to become one of the world's most wealthy and militarized countries, and delivers in Asian Waters the compelling narrative of this most volatile region. Can the United States and China handle the changing balance of power peacefully? Do Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan share enough common purpose to create a NATO-esque multilateral alliance? Does China think it can even become a superpower while making an enemy of America? If so, how does it plan to achieve it? Asian Waters delves into these topics and more as Hawksley presents the most comprehensive and accessible analysis ever of this region., The firstbook to comprehensively break down the politics and tensions among the countriesof the western Pacific, by a foreign correspondent who has witnessed itfirsthand, In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies. The lightning rods of conflict are remote reefs and islands from which China has created military bases in the 1.5-million-square-mile expanse of the South China Sea, a crucial world trading route that this rising world power now claims as its own. No other Asian country can take on China alone. They look for protection from the United States, although it, too, may be ill-equipped for the job at hand. If China does get away with seizing and militarizing waters here, what will it do elsewhere in the world, and who will be able to stop it?In Asian Waters, award-winning foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley breaks down the politics--and tensions--that he has followed through this region for years. Reporting on decades of political developments, he has witnessed China's rise to become one of the world's most wealthy and militarized countries, and delivers in Asian Waters the compelling narrative of this most volatile region. Can the United States and China handle the changing balance of power peacefully? Do Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan share enough common purpose to create a NATO-esque multilateral alliance? Does China think it can even become a superpower while making an enemy of America? If so, how does it plan to achieve it? Asian Waters delves into these topics and more as Hawksley presents the most comprehensive and accessible analysis ever of this region.