Where Great Powers Meet explores the global competition for power between the United States and China. Focusing on Southeast Asia, David Shambaugh looks at how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the countries within it maneuver between the US and China and the degree to which they align with one or the other power.
Where Great Powers Meet explores the global competition for power between the United States and China. Focusing on Southeast Asia, David Shambaugh looks at how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the countries within it maneuver between the US and China and the degree to which they align with one or the other power. Not simply an analysis of the region's place within an evolving international system, Where Great Powers Meet provides us with a comprehensive strategy that advances the American position while exploiting Chinese weaknesses.
The book offers not just an overall accessible and well-informed overview of the role played by Southeast Asia in the US-China competition but also stimulating insights into the dynamics within this triangular set of relations. In content and style, it is also well-positioned to serve as complementary material for teaching on Asian politics, the US and China's foreign policy, as well as Sino-US relations on both higher undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
