Pacific defense : arms, energy, and America's future in Asia /
Kent E. Calder.
- 1st ed.
- xi, 253 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
1. Arms Race Asia? -- 2. The Northeast Asian Arc of Crisis -- 3. Looming Energy Insecurities -- 4. Asia and the Nuclear Threshold -- 5. Japan's Struggle for Strategy -- 6. Thunder out of China -- 7. Asia's New Balance-of-Power Game -- 8. Asia and the Twilight of Globalism -- 9. The Policy Gap -- 10. Coping with the Transpacific Future.
Calder, director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Princeton, shows how the rapidly increasing demands for energy, especially nuclear energy, in East Asia combines with political instability to produce a dangerous region.