ABSTRACT

Kapor argues that explanations of international relations in Asia in the post-Second World War period have relied too much on the Cold War as a key explanatory factor, and have not given enough emphasis to the useful concepts of 'regional power formation', 'conflict formation' and 'conflict resolution'. The author outlines these concepts and goes on to elaborate on them, and to apply them to three key Asian regions - northeast, southeast, and south Asia - discussing practical strategic issues in an historical perspective and arguing that these concepts, and other concepts which he discusses, are extremely helpful in making sense of the complex pattern of international relations in Asia.

chapter 1|24 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|25 pages

Tied together by power politics and notional realities

The great powers in Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries

chapter 6|15 pages

Multipolarity in Asian regions 1940s–2000

An overview

chapter 7|16 pages

Multipolarity during the Cold War

chapter 9|14 pages

The future of geo-politics in Asia

chapter 10|6 pages

From conflict to conflict resolution

An outline of the process