This book explores the question 'Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?' It traces the...

great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, military history and maritime s...

Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesse...

In this book,Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and...

Asia was a major focus of struggle between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The s...

This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing...

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is no...

Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite C...

This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to ex...

Excerpt from the introduction: 'In the late nineteenth century, the French Jeune École, or 'new s...

The remote vastness of Mongolia has always been a mystery to most Westerners -- no less so in the...

This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant nav...