The Asia-Pacific region has been enjoying fast growing economy. As President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" strategy indicates, this region is an engine for the world economic growth. However, the Asia-Pacific has also been an unstable region suffering from many sources of conflicts such as disputes on Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, the unsettled Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) borders, and many others. Do we need a hegemonic power to stabilize this region? What can we do to deal with the emergence of China? How can we understand anti-Japanese feelings? Is there any way to deal with the problem on Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands? How can we analyze nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula? Can the European Union make any contribution to stabilizing the Asia-Pacific region? Those are some of the concrete questions this book tackles with in order to find ways and means to establish a more amicable Asia-Pacific region.

About the Author
Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University. He has been writing on US-Japan relations, Japanese foreign and security policies, and Japanese health insurance systems.

Reviews
Sugita's book presents many original and thought provoking new perspectives, as well as some genuinely interesting and potentially realizable routes towards improving peaceful and friendly co-existence in a region, which, despite free flowing economic links, is seen by many as having rocky political relations. * Japan Today *



Book Information
ISBN 9780761869450
Author Yoneyuki Sugita
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Hamilton Books
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 249g
Dimensions(mm) 225mm * 154mm * 12mm