Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1945–1950
- 2 War: Korea, 1950–1953
- 3 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1953–1960
- 4 War: Vietnam, 1960–1975
- 5 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1975–1989
- 6 Post-Cold War: Asia-Pacific, 1989–2000
- 7 Future: Asia-Pacific, 2001–2020
- 8 Conclusions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
7 - Future: Asia-Pacific, 2001–2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1945–1950
- 2 War: Korea, 1950–1953
- 3 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1953–1960
- 4 War: Vietnam, 1960–1975
- 5 Postwar: Asia-Pacific, 1975–1989
- 6 Post-Cold War: Asia-Pacific, 1989–2000
- 7 Future: Asia-Pacific, 2001–2020
- 8 Conclusions
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
There are at least as many designs and strategies for an East Asian partnership as there are countries in the region.
Fred Bergsten, The Economist, 15 July 2000East Asians now know that given the time and the opportunity to engage in trade, investments and technology transfers, they, too, can industrialize and catch up with the West. This self-confidence arises from an understanding of the factors that gave the West their lead, and the self-confidence that we, too, can make the grade.
Lee Kuan Yew, The Nation (Bangkok), 21 August 2000In our experience, young people are much more likely to have confidence in their future if they have a share in shaping it, in choosing their governmental leaders and having a government that is accountable to those it serves.
President Clinton, Hanoi, 18 November 2000We must now reckon with the more likely prospects for the Asia-Pacific region in the first decades of the twenty-first century, recalling that historians are unqualified by trade to offer any but amateur readings of the international horoscope. Their efforts at divination run the risk of assuming that the recent past is necessarily prologue, and they can all too easily discount the likelihood of sharp caesuras over the next generation. Predictions based merely on the continuation of comforting trends may soon be fit only for pulping. While doctors are said to be able to bury their mistakes, contemporary historians and political scientists have little choice but to live with theirs. The list is long indeed of distinguished individuals who suggested before the fall of the Berlin Wall that the Soviet Union would be able to cope with the unpleasant choices of guns or vodka.
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- The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945 , pp. 216 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002