Fire on the Rim - The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics

Fire on the Rim combines an idealist's call for social justice, cultural difference, and environmental sustainability with a realist's recognition of the continuing need for balance of power security relations around the Pacific Rim. Although this melding of idealist and realist elements is sure to meet opposition on the Right and Left alike, the author's call for moral realism is a vital step toward an Asia policy fit for the twenty-first century.

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By William H. Thornton - Foreword by Bryan Turner

Summary

A study of the cultural dynamics of East/West power politics. In defiance of ideological convention, it combines a call for social justice, cultural difference, and environmental sustainability with a sober recognition of the need for continued balance of power geopolitics, soft and hard.

Product details

• Authors: William H Thornton, William H. Thornton, Wm H. Thornton
• Assisted by: Turner Bryan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2002
• EAN: 9780742517066
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1706-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives; Pacific Formations; Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives; Pacific Formations: Global Rel; Pacific Formations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Relations, United States of America, USA, East Asia, Far East