Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific

by Jeffrey S. Lantis

Book Overview

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies--strategic culture--illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region's difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors. Strategic culture sometimes challenges and always enriches prevailing neo-realist presumptions about the region. It provides a bridge between material and ideational explanations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138841447
• ISBN13: 9781138841444
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"