The Rise of Asia
April 2006
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April Article Abstracts
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Title: America Confronts the Asian Century
Author: Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth
"The United States has been the regional power in Asia since the end of World War II. But change is under way."
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Title: Asia in Transition: The Evolving Regional Order
Author: David Shambaugh
"The emerging and evolving Asian system today is a mixture of realist, liberal, and constructivist elements--with major powers vying for influence, while interdependence deepens, and behavioral norms and multilateral institutions develop. Such cross-trends may not make for conceptual clarity, but they do constitute the current reality."
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Title: China's Unpeaceful Rise
Author: John J. Mearsheimer
"International politics is a nasty and dangerous business, and no amount of goodwill can ameliorate the intense security competition that sets in when an aspiring hegemon appears in Eurasia."
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Title: India and the Asian Security Architecture
Author: Varun Sahni
"By building robust political and economic links with both China and the United States, India could end up playing an important catalytic role in bringing both countries together in a new cooperative Asia."
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Title: Asia's Challenged Giants
Author: Shalendra D. Sharma
"China and India are already major players in the global economy. However, their impact in coming decades on the world's economic and strategic landscape will depend . . . on how each deals with its structural and economic challenges."
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Title: Curbing Asian Corruption: An Impossible Dream?
Author: Jon S. T. Quah
"Many leaders have adopted 'hopeless' strategies that perpetuate corruption instead of stifling it."
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Title: Fueling the Dragon: China's Strategic Energy Dilemma
Author: Michael T. Klare
"Unless the world's existing powers are prepared to descend into the sort of resource-driven geopolitical competition that resulted in World War I . . . they must make room at the table for an energy-hungry China."
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Title: The Koreas, Unification, and the Great Powers
Author: Joungwon Alexander Kim and Myungshin Hong
"The Korean Peninsula has been Asia's Berlin Wall, where communism and democracy have directly confronted one another."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in February 2006, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Asia
A map of Asia.
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