Asia and Pacific
Hughes argues that Japan's incrementally raised defense budget, extended security perimeter, and improved armaments represent remilitarization of the island.
India's interests stretch far beyond its immediate periphery, covering several wide arcs from the Middle East through Central Asia, China, and Southeast Asia all the way to Japan, and they intersect at every point with the interests of Russia and the United States. No wonder New Delhi aspires to great-power status -- and has begun to earn it with economic growth, a naval buildup, and smarter diplomacy.
Scott has put rural and marginal people at the center of his previous studies, and here he offers a history of the estimated 100 million people who live in a vast hill and mountain zone that runs across southwest China, northeast India, and parts of five Southeast Asian countries.
Joiner's story is a cautionary tale about the harm of persecuting diplomats who tell the truth as they see it, but also, as Joiner acknowledges, about the dangers of a security culture so lax that extensive leaking had become habitual even for honorable officers.
Steinberg gives a pointed briefing on what ails Myanmar (also called Burma) and finds the causes mostly in history.
Edited by Ho-Fung Hung
This symposium uses the Marxist-inflected theory of globalization known as world-systems theory to view some familiar topics through a fresh lens, although it is often blurred by jargon.
