Considers future U.S. policy towards Asia and reviews U.S. relations with Japan and other Asian nations. Focuses on prospects for regional, economic, political, and security arrangements among countries of Asia.

Considers future U.S. policy towards Asia and reviews U.S. relations with Japan and other Asian nations. Focuses on prospects for regional, economic, political, and security arrangements among countries of Asia.

Considers future U.S. policy towards Asia and reviews U.S. relations with Japan and other Asian nations. Focuses on prospects for regional, economic, political, and security arrangements among countries of Asia.

Record of hearings before the subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs of the committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives of the congress of the u.s.a. On the future role of USA in countries of Asia and Pacific - includes statements on foreign policy, defence and economic aid, technical cooperation, etc.

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.

In a fast-moving and incisive narrative, Roger Buckley examines America s close and continuous relationship with the Asia-Pacific region from the end of the Pacific War to the first days of the Presidency of George W. Bush. The author traces the responses of the United States government to the major crises in the area through the Cold War decades and the initial post-Cold War years. He demonstrates how the US sought to maintain its dominant regional position through a series of security alliances and its own political, military and economic strengths. Professor Buckley examines the subject from geopolitical perspectives to provide a gateway to the understanding of a complex region certain to be of global importance in the twenty-first century.