Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance
Autor Richard McGregoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2018
Subliniem, încă de la primele pagini, că structura lucrării Asia's Reckoning este construită pe o metodologie riguroasă ce îmbină jurnalismul de teren cu cercetarea academică de arhivă. Richard McGregor nu se limitează la o analiză de suprafață, ci organizează materialul cronologic și tematic pentru a explica cum fundațiile ordinii postbelice în Pacific, asigurate timp de jumătate de secol de puterea americană, au început să se clatine sub presiunea naționalismului și a noilor dinamici de putere. Considerăm esențial modul în care autorul integrează personalitățile liderilor politici și dinastiile acestora în marea ecuație a geopoliticii, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra rivalității toxice dintre China și Japonia.
Reținem că această lucrare este comparabilă cu The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific de Michael Yahuda în ceea ce privește rigurozitatea istorică, dar este actualizată pentru a reflecta schimbările seismice aduse de ascensiunea agresivă a Chinei și imprevizibilitatea politicii externe americane din ultimii ani. În contextul operei sale anterioare, dacă The Party a fost recunoscută ca volumul de referință pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor interne ale Partidului Comunist Chinez, Asia's Reckoning extinde acest obiectiv, plasând China într-un sistem regional complex de interdependențe și conflicte istorice nerezolvate. Textul este scris într-un ritm alert, specific unui corespondent de cursă lungă, reușind să traducă jargonul diplomatic în explicații clare despre rute comerciale, centre de producție și securitate globală.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141982853
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Despre autor
Richard McGregor este un jurnalist și autor de renume, fost șef al biroului din China pentru Financial Times. Cu o experiență de aproape două decenii de raportare directă din Asia de Nord, McGregor s-a stabilit ca unul dintre cei mai fini observatori ai structurilor de putere asiatice. Expertiza sa este dublată de accesul la arhive diplomatice și interviuri cu oficiali de rang înalt din Washington, Beijing și Tokyo. Pe lângă activitatea jurnalistică, acesta a publicat lucrări de referință despre sistemul politic chinez, fiind premiat pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza fenomene politice complexe pe înțelesul publicului larg.
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A compelling and impressive read
Skillfully crafted and well-argued
An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region's present and future.
[A] wide-ranging study of China's re-emergence as a regional power in Asia after a long hiatus, thwarting the designs of other powers, including the United States and Russia. . . . The U.S. [finds itself] firmly ensnared in the so-called Thucydides trap, 'the principle that it is dangerous to build an empire but even more dangerous to let it go.' So it is, and the current leadership appears to be at a loss about what to do or to formulate other aspects of any coherent policy in and toward Asia. . . . Geopolitics wonks will want to give attention to this urgent but nonsensationalized argument.
The United States, China, and Japan form the power triangle that will shape much of the international politics in the 21st century. Richard McGregor's masterfulThe Partyilluminated one corner of that triangle-China. In this important book he describes how the other two corners have interacted with China since World War II. Lucid, insightful and ominous, as the author describes big trouble ahead
Richard McGregor's new book is essential reading for anyone worried about the most fraught relationship in Asia-between China and Japan. With extensive experience in and knowledge of both China, Japan, and the United States, McGregor is in a unique position to unpack the relationship and sort through the extensive propaganda and myth-making on all sides. A great read!
McGregor distills years of meetings with high officials in China and Japan to give a vivid nuanced picture of their relations in the 21st century
An in-depth depiction of radical changes and challenges in Japan-China relations in the post-war period, thoroughly researched and rich in storytelling. In the course of tumultuous relations with China, Japan has had to trail blaze in the face of the rise of China. Japan's naked exposure to the unfolding Realpolitik with China at its core is for the first time comprehensively reviewed.
A must read for anyone who wants to understand our future.Asia's Reckoningprovides a detailed picture of the slow military, diplomatic and economic waltz between China, Japan and the United States that determined the shape of the past half-century.
A compelling account of the post-war relationship between China, Japan and America, brings to life one of the world's most complicated love-hate triangles.
McGregor's brilliant book is packed with insights on the complex Sino-Japanese relationship, the gist of that being that past history should be our teacher rather than master. Will a more powerful China learn magnanimity, one wonders.
For journalists taking up new posts in China, the first book I always suggest is Richard McGregor'sThe Party. I will now add McGregor's new book,Asia's Reckoning, to my list for those headed to the Far East.
InAsia's Reckoning, Richard McGregor provides a cogent and superbly researched guide to the deep forces that undergird China's geopolitical strategy and the attempts of two other great powers in the region, the United States and Japan, to deal with it.
McGregor's fascinating narrative of the three countries' relations over 50 years is filled with fresh anecdotes drawn from interviews and newly released archival documents. McGregor has a sharp eye for personalities and policy factions, as well as a firm grasp of geopolitics.
Richard McGregor has followed up his masterful 2010 book on The Party by focusing on the collisions and the less frequent collusions between the three Pacific powers: China, Japan and the US. Most regional strategic writing is focused on one of the three countries, but McGregor has done immense research in each of them and sets up the story beautifully.
McGregor offers a masterful account of the complex fifty-year dance between China, Japan and the United States.
McGregor has written a magisterial book that combines old-fashioned shoe leather reporting and extensive archival research to hart seven decades of history between the three countries.
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AFinancial TimesBest Book of 2017
'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan,The Wall Street Journal
'A compelling and impressive read.'The Economist
'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom,Financial Times
'An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region's present and future.' Joyce Lau,South China Morning Post
The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east Asia
For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endless history wars and entrenched political dynasties. Now, the combination of these forces with Donald Trump's unpredictable impulses and disdain for America's old alliances threatens to upend the region, and accelerate the unravelling of the postwar order. If the United States helped lay the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy,Asia's Reckoningwill reveal how that structure is now crumbling.
With unrivalled access to archives in the US and Asia, as well as many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale which blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with the domestic political trends and personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The confrontational course on which China and Japan have increasingly set themselves is no simple spat between neighbors. And the fallout would be a political and economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent.