05/28/2018
Hawksley (Democracy Kills), a BBC journalist who worked and lived in Asia for decades, provides a clear introduction to the subject of Chinese efforts to expand the country’s sovereignty into the islands of the South China Sea. The book is based primarily on secondary sources, the author’s observations and analysis, and interviews with key leaders in the region. The first part of the book explores China’s perspective; Hawksley says that China sees itself as a dominant global power, humiliated by Western colonialism generally and the Opium Wars specifically, whose recent moves are merely reasserting the position it held over thousands of years. Parts two to four consider the experience of China’s neighbors: India, which Hawksley argues has been “dwarfed economically and encircled” by China; the Philippines, which he thinks likely to cozy up to China; and Japan, China’s biggest potential rival for dominance in the region. This is a solid overview, but one place where it falls short is the lack of discussion of U.S. policy regarding Chinese expansion and the relative military capabilities of the two nations. Despite this shortcoming, this volume is informative and thought-provoking and will be of interest to anyone interested in Asia, contemporary affairs, national security issues, and foreign policy. (June)
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
Narrated by Nigel Patterson
Humphrey HawksleyUnabridged — 9 hours, 29 minutes
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
Narrated by Nigel Patterson
Humphrey HawksleyUnabridged — 9 hours, 29 minutes
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Overview
In Asian Waters, award-winning foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley breaks down the politics-and tensions-that he has followed through this region for years. Reporting on decades of political developments, he has witnessed China's rise to become one of the world's most wealthy and militarized countries, and delivers in Asian Waters the compelling narrative of this most volatile region.
Editorial Reviews
Asian Watersplays a critical role in defining India's importance in the evolving geo-strategic matrix. . . . To understand the new Indo-Pacific region, Asian Waters is a must read.”
Asian Waters is a timely,detailed and balancedexamination of one of the crucial geo-political fault-lines of the twenty-first century. Its insights and analysisaccurately mapthe complexity of the situation in the Asia-Pacific region,the choices open to policy-makers anda range ofoutcomes that could lead tocooperation, confrontation or conflict.”
Humphrey Hawksley is without doubt a master storyteller. . . . Great power politics will define Asia’s future path. But in order to see what may lie ahead, it is critical to understand the people, the personalities, and the psychologies that drive the decision-making processes. Hawksley’s ability to do just that is second to none.
Hawksley' s writing style is accessible even when his subject grows more complex, ranging from geographic diversity to narration about history and politics. This book is a helpful primer to better understand the tools available to those formulating the South China Sea policy.
Whether it is navigating on the political waves in East Asia, or exploring the great power status, the book offers a generous insight.
Humphrey Hawksley has long and rich experience of life in Asia, and has used this to inform this lucid,
lively account of the frontier if Chinese aspirations—the region in which it sits. It is here that the true face of Chinese power is being revealed—the waters of Asia. There are fewer better guides to this than Mr. Hawksley.
A readable and very well-informed guide to an area of real tension in the early decades of this century.
Humphrey Hawksley spent decades in Asia’s many trouble spots. InAsian Waters, he now focuses his immense skills at forensic political analysis to dissect 21stcentury Asia’s latest trouble spot, the South China Sea, where a rising and increasingly assertive China questions the international order based on the rule of law. A fascinating read.”
With his solid, on-the-ground experience and incisive analysis derived from decades of first rate reportage, Humphrey Hawksley provides new ways of seeing and understanding the shifting balance of world power, a change of monumental significance for this century. Asian Waters seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history. His conclusions are surprising and often disturbing, but always based on the evidence. This book is a must-read.”
Day by day the inherent tension between Chinese strategic ambition, American desire to rule the waves, Asian neighbors' territorial claims and the panoply of international law and conventions moves closer to snapping point. The South China Sea is the place where the legacies of the 20th century come smack into confrontation with the new realities of the 21st.Asian Watersdeserves to be widely read and debated, all over the world.”
Asian Waters . . .recently became my ideal travel companion on a long flight to Australia, en route to the South China Sea. For any other reader hoping to navigate those troubled waters, or seeking a broad overview of the geopolitical fault lines in Asia, Hawksley’s book provides an excellent guide.”
Hawksley has a knack for delivering pointed arguments and parallels amid a concise array of key historical events.
In Asian Waters,Hawksley's latest and his best book to date . . . more than just an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the region awaits the reader. . . .For both students and practitioners of foreign policy, his book is a must read.”
A vivid and highly readable guide to one of the great flash points of the
21st century.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940171273132 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 07/10/2018 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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