Andrew J. Nathan

Moltz deftly melds technological expertise with history and political analysis. He warns that the region’s competitive dynamic is bringing military applications to the fore instead of peaceful activities such as geographic sensing, weather forecasting, and telecommunications.

Swaine comprehensively reviews the U.S.-Chinese relationship, which he sees as marked by an awkward combination of suspicion and interdependence.

The Thailand- and Singapore-based contributors to this volume diagnose what ails Thailand with clinical clarity.

Mullaney has discovered the archives of the Yunnan office of the Ethnic Classification Project and has interviewed some of its surviving members, allowing him to reflect on modern state making and identity creation.

West, a law professor, examines Japanese society through an unconventional prism -- court judgments on crimes involving love and sex.

The 14 chapters in this volume provide a sweeping overview of the gains and setbacks in China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crisis.

Midford challenges two pieces of conventional wisdom about Japan: that the public is pacifistic and that the elites are nonetheless moving the country toward the offensive use of force.

With careful attention to detail, the authors are able to show that China’s compliance has increased as its economy has become more interdependent with the rest of the world, although in selective ways that reflect particular economic and security interests.

Christensen takes a fine-grained look at several key episodes during the Cold War in Asia, including the Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954–55 and 1958, and the Vietnam War.

Henry Kissinger's new book argues that the United States should yield gracefully to China's rise; Aaron Friedberg's gives the opposite advice. By focusing on intentions instead of capabilities, both books overstate China's actual power.

The Tulip Revolution that overthrew President Askar Akayev's government in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 entered the honor roll of "color revolutions." But Radnitz argues that this was not a case of civil society rising up spontaneously to overthrow an authoritarian elite.