For several centuries, international relations has been primarily
the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various
times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the
U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential
in international relations for the past several decades has been
the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a
globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the
nation-state paradigm is not as dominant as it once was. In Asia in
Washington, longtime Asia analyst Kent Calder examines the concept
of "global city" in the context of international affairs. The term
typically has been used in an economic context, referring to
centers of international finance and commerce such as New York,
Tokyo, and London. But Calder extends the concept to political
centers as well - particularly in this case, Washington, D.C.
Improved communications, enhanced transportation, greater economic
integration and activity have created a new economic village, and
global political cities are arising within the new structure -
distinguished not by their CEOs or stock markets but by their
influence over policy decisions, and their amassing of strategic
intelligence on topics from national policy trends to geopolitical
risk. Calder describes the rise of Washington, D.C., as perhaps the
preeminent global political city - seat of the world's most
powerful government, center of NGO and multilateral policy
activity, the locale of institutions such as the World Bank and
IMF, and home to numerous think tanks and universities. Within
Washington, the role of Asia is especially relevant for several
reasons. It represents the core of the non-Western industrialized
world and the most challenge to Western dominance. It also raises
the delicate issue of how race matters in international global
governance - a factor crucially important during a time of
globalization. And since Asia developed later than the West, its
changing role in Washington raises major issues regarding how
rising powers assimilate themselves into global governance
structure. How do Asian nations establish, increase, and leverage
their Washington presence, and what is the impact on Washington
itself and the decisions made there? Kent Calder explains it all in
Asia in Washington.
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