The Indo-Pacific Trump China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery - Richard Javad Heydarian Kartoniert (TB)

This book places the presidency of Donald Trump as well as the brewing Sino-American Cold War within the broader historical context of American hegemony in Asia which traces its roots to Alfred Thayer Mahan's call for a naval build up in the Pacific the subsequent colonization of the Philippines and ultimately reaching its apotheosis after the defeat of Imperial Japan in the Second World War. The book drawing on visits from Cairo to California and Perth to Pyongyang as well as interviews and exchanges with heads of state and senior officials from across the Indo-Pacific provides an overv iew of the arc of American primacy in the region for scholars journalists and concerned citizens.