A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast
Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China …

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China
has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam …

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any
time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as …

Power is real, but it does not always prevail. This book explores how disparity structures
international relationships. Beginning at the bilateral level, the relationship between the …

D sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughals built one of the most powerful empires
in the early modern world. Their wealth was unmatched in both the East and the West, they …

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in
both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this …

What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense
emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories …

This book brings something new in both dimension and detail to our understanding of
Southeast Asia from the first to the fourteenth centuries. It puts Southeast Asia in the context …

Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

Compared with the precocious empires of East and South Asia, Southeast Asia has
traditionally been considered a cultural and political backwater and its people as receptors …