... China India trade alliances Belt Road Initiative Pakistan Myanmar Sri Lanka Maldives Bhutan borders South China Sea Xi Jinping Narendra Modi Gujarat foreign investment South Asia 142 Beijing s miscalculations regarding India have created conflict with a regional power that has...

... warming sea level rise hurricanes storms climate adaptation storms flooding social infrastructure resilience Netherlands Rotterdam Houston 16 Focusing solely on physical infrastructure runs the risk of overlooking another critical component of resilience: social infrastructure...

...Pamela McElwee [O]ne-size-fits-all adaptation will not work, given the wide variety of regional impacts in Vietnam. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Pamela McElwee Vietnam climate change adaptation global warming sea...

.... All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Mark Beeson United States China Asia Donald Trump trade Trans-Pacific Partnership South China Sea Japan South Korea Philippines Australia Asia-Pacific regional order 235 The possibility of miscalculation...

... of California Michael Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones 10 Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for Ameri- can foreign policy but never exerted...

... Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of en-ergy were largely governed by the assump- tion...

... The Regents of the University of California Pavel Baev Russia Vladimir Putin military Air Force navy nuclear arsenal foreign policy Ukraine Donbas Crimea Baltic Sea Syria Islamic State NATO Cold War Chechen War Russia s propensity to use military force as an instrument...

... of the University of California Mark Beeson China South China Sea Philippines Vietnam Japan Australia United States maritime law Barack Obama Xi Jinping ASEAN nationalism United Nations Convention Law Sea How times change. Only a few years ago the East Asian region was known primarily...

... and deepening of these new part- nerships, most notably the one with Washington. Beijing s outsized sovereignty claims in the South China Sea (known to the Vietnamese as the East Sea) and the steps it has taken to enforce them have raised alarm bells around the region, but nowhere as much as in Vietnam. While...

... related to ISIS? Darned if I know. As someone who has written extensively on the Russian role in the outbreak of World War I, I see . . . virtually no parallels whatsoever to the current situation in Ukraine, aside from the abiding strategic importance of the Black Sea to whichever government holds sway...

... of the University of California Kemal Kirişci Turkey Eurasia Soviet Union Russia Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Moldova Ukraine Black Sea trade Middle East economic regional integration 271 In the long run, a stable, democratic, and economically dynamic Turkey that remains a member...

... of California Mickael Klare maritime conflict territorial claims China Japan Philippines Vietnam South China Sea East China Mediterranean energy resources oil gas 26 What makes these disputes so dangerous . . . is the apparent willingness of many claimants to employ military means...

... Mickael Klare maritime conflict territorial claims China Japan Philippines Vietnam South China Sea East China Mediterranean energy resources oil gas 33 The dual forces of population growth and climate change will exacerbate pres- sures on land use, water access, and food security...

... Trans-Pacific Partnership trade military South China Sea containment Obama 209 America s expanding military footprint in Asia may be more of a provocation than a deterrent to China s aggressive behavior. The China Threat and the Pivot to Asia hugh De santis In the late spring of 1947...

...Marvin C. Ott The South China Sea is a growing focus of concern in Washington, at the headquarters of the US Pacific Command in Honolulu, and in a number of Southeast Asian capitals. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Marvin Ott...

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...—as the natural behavior of a global superpower engaged in global dominance. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California United States George Bush Eurasia Russia Afghanistan Caucasus oil Al Qaeda Caspian Sea China One of the most striking...

... involved in the quiet struggle now unfolding in Northeast Asia over seabed petroleum resources, especially the conflict between China and Japan over the East China Sea. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California With its energy needs steadily growing...

... toward all significant energy-supplying regions, especially the Persian Gulf area, the Caspian Sea basin, Africa, and Latin America. TIED TO THE PERSIAN GULF The Persian Gulf has been and will remain a major area of concern for United States foreign pol- icy because it sits above the world s largest...