{"product_id":"9781350119307","title":"Great Powers and Reordering the Asia Pacific, 1900-1991 Chasing Dragons","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGreat Powers and Reordering the Asia Pacific, 1900-1991\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChasing Dragons\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBrian P. Farrell | Andrea Benvenuti | Shannon Brown | Charles Burgess | Karl Hack | SR Joey Long | Marek W. Rutkowski | Fumihito Yamamoto\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Asia \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark two-volume set comprehensively examines the role, influence and contributions of American and European military power and statecraft in shaping the state system and regional order in modern Asia across the 20th century. From the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the close of the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eWestern Military Power and the Reordering of Modern Asia, 1900-1979 \u003c\/i\u003eexplains how strategic foreign policy in the West was used to politically reorder the modern ‘Far East’, an arc of space stretching from Vladivostok to Burma – referred to here as the Asia Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volumes pay particularly close attention to the major international ‘visions’ for restructuring an Asian states system within a changing, increasingly global, political order set forth in the period:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* The peace treaties of 1919 and the League of Nations\u003cbr\u003e* The United Nations vision of 1945\u003cbr\u003e* The Geneva Agreements of 1954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcentrating on three key themes – notions of global order, concepts of sovereignty and legitimacy, and projects for collective security – and bearing in mind the centrality of China and Japan, Brian P. Farrell and his international author team explain why and how these visions, and the power deployed to pursue them, contributed fundamentally to the construction of a post-imperial Asia Pacific; the region’s new state system hard-coded into a now global political order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian P. Farrell \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) and \u003ci\u003eThe Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943 \u003c\/i\u003e(1998). He is also the lead editor of the two-volume \u003ci\u003eEmpire in Asia: A New Global History \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Benvenuti \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eCold War and Decolonisation: Australia's Policy Towards Britain's End of Empire in Southeast Asia \u003c\/i\u003e(2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShannon Brown \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e is a PhD candidate in History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, where his broad research interests include military, diplomatic, and international history, focusing on grand strategy and coalition warfare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Hack \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eWar Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore \u003c\/i\u003e(2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSR Joey Long \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSafe for Decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarek W. Rutkowski\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Global Studies at Monash University, Malaysia. His research focuses on the intersection of the Global Cold War and decolonization in Asia with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, non-alignment, development and the role played by the Soviet Bloc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFumihito Yamamoto\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar and book translator (English to Japanese). Educated in Dokkyo University in Saitama, Japan and at the National University of Singapore, he is working on international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, especially Anglo-Japanese relations. 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