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This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security
Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the
Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It
reviews "old" security realities covered in previous editions, and
highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the
North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, the
South China Sea dispute, and the future U.S. China rivalry.
Featuring contributions by a distinguished group of international
security and Asia experts, this new edition has been reformatted
and restructured. A new introductory chapter on terrorism sets the
stage for the country-by-country profiles and assessments of the
political-security situations in twenty-three individual nations. A
new appendix on foreign terrorist organizations is also included.
Featuring contributions by a distinguished group of international
security and Asia experts, this thoroughly revised and updated
edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to
security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international
terrorism. It reviews old security realities covered in previous
editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region,
including the North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction
proliferation, the South China Sea dispute, and the future
U.S.-China rivalry. The new edition has been completely reformatted
and restructured. A new introductory chapter on terrorism sets the
stage for the country-by-country profiles and assessments of the
political-security situation in twenty-three individual nations. A
new appendix on Foreign Terrorist Organizations is also included.
Western interests in the Asia-Pacific region have dramatically
expanded over the last few years; particularly in terms of economic
relationships and commercial investment. While economic development
is predicted to continue in the region, the assumption of political
stability on which it depends is clouded major security
uncertainties lurking in the background, these could undermine the
relative stability the region has come to expect, and new strains
and fissures could develop in the region that would likely
reverberate elsewhere. Featuring nineteen individual country
profiles, which makes a unique contribution to the existing
literature, this volume seeks to shed light on the key political
and security factors and geopolitical trends that bear monitoring
and to point out new trends that have greater significance in the
post-Cold War environment.
Looking beyond the annual debate on MFN, the contributors to this
book examine the complex economic, strategic and ideological issues
confronting US policy-makers in this critical bilateral
relationship.
James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate
since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in
1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale
professor took him aside and suggested a career in intelligence, it
became clear that he would spend his adult life returning to China
again and again.
Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo,
Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the
early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the U.S.'s
top-ranking diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and
finally, ambassador to China. From helping Laotian insurgent forces
assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing
during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable
number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his
life tending to America's interests in Asia. In China Hands, he
includes three generations of stories from an American family in
the Far East, all of them absorbing, some of them exciting, and
one, the loss of Lilley's much loved and admired brother, Frank,
unremittingly tragic.
"China Hands" is a fascinating memoir of America in Asia, Asia
itself, and one especially capable American's personal history.
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