America's Asian Alliances

by Robert D. Blackwill and Paul Dibb (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262522854
• ISBN10: 0262522853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-07
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Unlike the new and largely peaceful Europe, the Asia-Pacific region is fraught with old instabilities and new risks, as well as opportunities. America's Asian alliances face an arc of potential instability, from the divided Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia, to the nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan on the South Asian subcontinent, to an unstable Indonesia in Southeast Asia. The United States and its allies must also address the rise of Chinese power, slow the spread of nuclear and high-tech conventional weapons, maintain access to energy resources, and expand the world free-trade system. In this book, nine distinguished US and Australian strategists present systematic and concrete prescriptions for strengthening America's Asian alliances. These policy-driven chapters address the roles that the US-Japan, US-South Korea, and US-Australia alliances can play in ensuring long-term stability and prosperity in the region.

Table of Contents

Map of the Asia-Pacific Region	vii
Preface	ix
Graham T. Allison
Foreword	xiii
Phillip H. Scanlan
The Strategic Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region	1	(18)
Paul Dibb
American Engagement in Asia	19	(12)
Philip Zelikow
The U.S.-Japan Alliance	31	(30)
Stuart Harris
Richard N. Cooper
The U.S.-Korea Alliance	61	(26)
Ralph A. Cossa
Alan Oxley
The U.S.-Australia Alliance	87	(24)
John Baker
Douglas H. Paal
An Action Agenda to Strengthen America's Alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region	111	(29)
Robert D. Blackwill
Comparative Defense Budgets and Spending	137	(1)
Comparative Military Forces	138	(1)
Comparative Economic Data	139	(1)
Contributors	140	(6)
About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs	146