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In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines the key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world.  The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's most dominate region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has re-emerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. china is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured 'Asia's other great game' - the rivalry between Japan and China. In North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest - can he control his nukes? Auslin also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century to today. Taken together, theses essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific region contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populas nations - India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin images a war between America and China in a big for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like. 

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Auslin presents a wide-ranging analysis of the implications of this new great-power rivalry. . . . [He] succeeds in his aim of reviving an older method of geopolitical thinking. - National Review If the Indo-Pacific is the map on which the future power balance will be redrawn, this book is a good investment in familiarizing yourself with the terrain. - The Wire China Auslin identifies the critical factors that will determine whether the future for free and open societies across the Indo-Pacific region remains bright or a darker future emerges in which autocratic and closed systems are ascendant. - H. R. McMaster, former US national security advisor and author of Battlegrounds

An extremely engaging and timely discussion of the US strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the midst of China's growing influence and the diminishing US presence in the region. Auslin reminds us why we cannot remain a spectator to the reshaping of regional order. --Gi-Wook Shin, the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea and director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University Written with the depth of a true historian, Asia's New Geopolitics offers a set of insightful essays about some of the key challenges in this part of the world over the next generation. --Victor Cha, vice dean and D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and former senior director for Asia, National Security Council Michael Auslin is one of America's sharpest analysts of Asia's geopolitics. This collection brims with insights about the future of the world's most important region. --Hal Brands, coauthor of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order If the Indo-Pacific is the map on which the future power balance will be redrawn, this book is a good investment in familiarizing yourself with the terrain. --The Wire China Auslin presents a wide-ranging analysis of the implications of this new great-power rivalry. . . . [He] succeeds in his aim of reviving an older method of geopolitical thinking. --National Review Auslin identifies the critical factors that will determine whether the future for free and open societies across the Indo-Pacific region remains bright or a darker future emerges in which autocratic and closed systems are ascendant. --H. R. McMaster, former US national security advisor and author of Battlegrounds In this interview, Michael Auslin, Payson R. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia, discusses his newly released book by Hoover Institution Press, Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific. Auslin describes the geopolitical importance of Asia's inner seas and how the Indo-Pacific region is impacted by China's ambitions, US force posture, North Korea's quest for nuclear weapons, the Sino-Japanese competition, and India's struggles as the world's largest democracy. --Stanford Report

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Michael R. Auslin is the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author or editor of six books, including the best-selling The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region.

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