ASSESSING MARITIME POWER IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
Series editors:
Professor Greg Kennedy, Dr Tim Benbow and Dr Jon Robb-Webb, Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK
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Assessing Maritime Power in the Asia-Pacific
The Impact of American Strategic Re-Balance
Edited by
GREG KENNEDY
Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK
HARSH V. PANT
Kings College London, UK
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Assessing maritime power in the Asia-Pacific : the impact of American strategic re-balance / [edited] by Greg Kennedy and Harsh V. Pant.
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ISBN 978-1-4724-6357-9 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-6813-3 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-7793-7 (epub) 1. Sea-power--United States--History--21st century. 2. Sea-power--Asia--History--21st century. 3. Sea-power--Pacific Area--History--21st century. 4. United States--Foreign relations--21st century. 5. United States--Foreign relations--Asia. 6. Asia--Foreign relations--United States. 7. United States--Foreign relations--Pacific Area. 8. Pacific Area--Foreign relations--United States. I. Kennedy, Greg, editor. II. Pant, Harsh V., editor. III. Kennedy, Greg. Assessing the American re-balancing strategy. Container of (work):
VA50.A87 2015
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2015011047
ISBN 9781472463579 (hbk)
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Contents
Greg Kennedy and Harsh V. Pant
Greg Kennedy
Tim Benbow
Hall Gardner
Elinor Sloan
Geoff Till
David Scott
Emi Mifune
Balbina Y. Hwang
Harsh V. Pant and Yogesh Joshi
Notes on Contributors
Tim Benbow is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London, at the UK Defence Academy. He took a BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, and then moved to St Antonys College, where he completed an MPhil and a DPhil in International Relations, concentrating on Strategic Studies. He also spent a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar and a year at Kings College, London. After being awarded his doctorate, he remained at Oxford, conducting a post-doctoral research project and teaching International Relations and Strategic Studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including one year as Tutor in Politics at University College. He spent two years teaching at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (where he was Honorary Fellow), before joining the Defence Studies Department at the JSCSC in 2004. He is Director of the Strategy and Defence Policy Research Centre, Deputy Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, and Maritime Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course. His research interests lie in naval history and strategy, and in British defence policy.
Hall Gardner is Professor and Chair of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris. His research blends a historical and theoretical approach with contemporary international affairs, concentrating on questions involving NATO and EU enlargement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact upon China and Eurasia in general, as well as the global ramifications of the war on terrorism. He received his PhD in 1987 at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, DC. He is a member of the World Association of International Studies, Stanford University and is on the advisory boards of the New Policy Forum (Mikhail Gorbachev); Cicero Foundation (Paris/Maastricht); Gostratgiques; and Oxford Bibliographies Online. His most recent books include NATO Expansion and US Strategy in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and The Failure to Prevent World War I: The Unexpected Armageddon (Ashgate, 2015). His next book, Crimea, Global Rivalry, and the Vengeance of History, will be published by Palgrave-Macmillan in August 2015. He can be reached at .
Balbina Y. Hwang is Visiting Professor at American University (Washington, DC). She has also been Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. From 2007 to January 2009 she served as Senior Special Advisor to Ambassador Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, at the US State Department. From 2009 to 2010, she taught Northeast Asian Security at National Defense University. Prior to joining the State Department, she was Senior Policy Analyst for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation (a think tank) and Lecturer at Georgetown University. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. She has received several writing awards, including awards from the International Studies Association and the National Capital Area Political Science Association.
