Grand Strategy and the Pacific Region

By Endicott, John E.

Book Id: WPLBN0000702671
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.34 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Grand Strategy and the Pacific Region
Author:	Endicott, John E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Business Strategy, Political Sociology, Economics
Collections:	e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; e-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES is an ageless phrase used to introduce countless assessments of the Pacific area. As worn as they might be, these words aptly capture--in the blink of an eye--the dynamism of the Pacific region. From North to South, wherever the Pacific Ocean caresses its far-reaching shores, we see meaningful and unparalleled change. The changes occurring are an interesting mixture of political and economic events made possible by the bubbling up of the inherent energies of the area itself, by the declining regional reach of the two nuclear superpowers, and by the active involvement of Japan--a new kind of economic superpower whose role is only now becoming discernible. Even as this paper is being written, events are breaking almost daily: in China, massive pro-democracy demonstrations persist; and even Burma, the Rip Van Winkle of Asia, is showing increasing signs that it too will enter the 21st century in far different form than maintained for the past generation.