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By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
Michael Green
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Description for By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
Hardback. Series: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-east Asian Relations. Num Pages: 760 pages, 27 maps and photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-east Asian Relations
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
760
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231180429
SKU
V9780231180429
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About Michael Green
Michael J. Green is senior vice president for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and ?chair in modern and contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has served most recently in government as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia on the National Security Council staff.
Reviews for By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
Michael Green's magisterial study is a timely and insightful reminder of the deep and long-standing ties between East Asia and the United States, and the complex interplay between our economic and security interests, and our values, a dynamic which has shaped US policy for two and a half centuries. It is an indispensable point of reference for students and policy makers seeking to understand a critical region where history casts a long shadow, notwithstanding the extraordinary changes of recent years.
James Steinberg, Syracuse University and former deputy secretary of state With impeccable research and lucid prose, Michael Green provides a first-rate account of the deep historical roots of American grand strategy toward Asia. It is essential for understanding American policy toward a crucial region.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of Is the American Century Over? Already a renowned Japan expert, Green combines his regional knowledge with a capacious strategic mind and historical sensibility. This is one of the most impressive books I have ever read. It is consistently original, providing on every page fresh insights immersed in a compelling narrative arc, and it is destined to be a lodestar among scholarship on history, strategy, and statecraft.
William Inboden, Chair, Clements Center for National Security, The University of Texas, Austin Important and comprehensive study of America's relations with the region.
Gordon G. Chang New York Times Book Review Green set about filling [a] gap in the literature and he has succeeded triumphantly. His book is likely to become the standard work on the subject.
Gideon Rachman Financial Times
James Steinberg, Syracuse University and former deputy secretary of state With impeccable research and lucid prose, Michael Green provides a first-rate account of the deep historical roots of American grand strategy toward Asia. It is essential for understanding American policy toward a crucial region.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of Is the American Century Over? Already a renowned Japan expert, Green combines his regional knowledge with a capacious strategic mind and historical sensibility. This is one of the most impressive books I have ever read. It is consistently original, providing on every page fresh insights immersed in a compelling narrative arc, and it is destined to be a lodestar among scholarship on history, strategy, and statecraft.
William Inboden, Chair, Clements Center for National Security, The University of Texas, Austin Important and comprehensive study of America's relations with the region.
Gordon G. Chang New York Times Book Review Green set about filling [a] gap in the literature and he has succeeded triumphantly. His book is likely to become the standard work on the subject.
Gideon Rachman Financial Times