Asia and the Road Ahead: Issues for the Major Powers

Reviewed by Lewis C. Austin

This overview of the domestic and international issues confronting the major Asian nations attempts some forecasting, but it is necessarily broad-gauged and cautious. Trends: for Japan and China, more of the same; for India, authoritarian subcontinental hegemony; for the U.S., vacillation; for the U.S.S.R., aggrandizement.