By More Than Providence

Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-18042-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1211 g

Reihe: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations

Soon after the American Revolution, the United States began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and its vast material and cultural resources. Many asked whether the United States should partner with China, which operates at the center of Asia, or Japan, which is located in the middle of 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. policy toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the evolving 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 felt by Americans 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Korean, Chinese, and Japanese TermsAcknowledgments Introduction I. The Rise of the United States 1. "A Theatre for the Exercise of the Most Ambitious Intellect": Seeds of Strategy, 1784–18602. "How Sublime the Pacific Part Assigned to Us": Precursors to Expansion, 1861–18983. "I Wish to See the United States the Dominant Power on the Shores of the Pacific": Grand Strategy in the Era of Theodore Roosevelt II. The Rise of Japan 4. "Leave the Door Open, Rehabilitate China, and Satisfy Japan": Defining the Open Door, 1909–19275. "Between Non-resistance and Coercion": The Open Door Closes, 1928–19416. "We Have Got to Dominate the Pacific": Grand Strategy and the War Against Japan III. The Rise of the Soviets 7. "The Overall Effect Is to Enlarge Our Strategic Frontier": Defining Containment in the Pacific, 1945–19608. "Anyone Who Isn't Confused Really Doesn't Understand the Situation": Asia Strategy and Escalation in Vietnam, 1961–19689. "An Even Balance": Nixon and Kissinger's Redefinition of Containment in Asia, 1969–1975 10. "The President Cannot Make Any Weak Moves": Jimmy Carter and the Return of the China Card, 1977–198011. "To Contain and Over Time Reverse": Ronald Reagan, 1980–1989IV. The Rise of China 12. "The Key to Our Security and Our Prosperity Lies in the Vitality of Those Relationships": George H. W. Bush and the Unipolar Moment, 1989–199213. "Engage and Balance": Bill Clinton and the Unexpected Return of Great-Power Politics 14. "A Balance of Power That Favors Freedom": Strategic Surprise and the Asia Policy of George W. Bush 15. "The Pivot": Barack Obama and the Struggle to Rebalance Asia Conclusion: The Historical Case for Asia Strategy Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Green is senior vice president for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., and an associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has served most recently in government as senior director for Asia on the National Security Council Staff.