Power and Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific

A. B. Abrams is the author of «China and America’s Tech War from AI to 5G: The Struggle to Shape the Future of World Order» (Rowman) and «Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power» (Clarity). He has published widely on international security and geopolitics with a focus on East Asia, and holds related Master’s degrees from the University of London.

Contents: Destroying the Japanese Empire: How Asia’s First Industrial Power Undermined Western Control – The War Against a Defeated Japan: Punishing a Challenger to the West’s Regional Hegemony – Undermining China: America’s Twenty- Year War to Destroy the People’s Republic – The Rise and Fall of an Independent Indonesia: A Twenty- Year War Effort to Restore Western Control – America in the Philippines: Establishing a Colony and Later Neo- Colony in the Pacific – War in Korea: A New Frontier for American Empire – The Desolation of Korea – Vietnam’s Long War: How a Thirty- Year Assault to Impose Western Control Ravaged a Nation – Japan After the War: From Primary Challenger to Key Upholder of Western Hegemony – Economic War on Asia: Crushing the Region’s Rising Economies – Asia Divided: Unifying Initiatives as a Threat to Western Primacy – Pivot to Asia and China’s Rise: Can a Western- Dominated Order be Perpetuated?