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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.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Sino-American Competition in Southeast Asia
- Part I: The American Encounter with Southeast Asia
- Chapter 2: America's Legacies in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 3: America's Contemporary Roles in Southeast Asia
- Part II: The Chinese Encounter with Southeast Asia
- Chapter 4: Chin a's Legacies in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 5: Contemporary China's Roles in Southeast Asia
- Part III: Southeast Asian Encounters with America and China
- Chapter 6: Navigating Between the Giants: ASEAN's Agency
- Part IV: The Future of Great Power Relations in Southeast Asia
- Chapter 7: Sino-American Competition in Southeast Asia: Polarization or Competitive Coexistence?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
About the author
David Shambaugh is Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science, & International Affairs and the founding Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is an internationally recognized authority and award-winning author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. An active public intellectual and frequent commentator in the international media, he serves on numerous editorial boards, and has been a consultant to governments, research institutions, foundations, universities, corporations, banks, and investment funds. As an author, Professor Shambaugh has published more than 30 books and 300 articles.
Summary
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.
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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.
