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Following decades of post-war strategic complacency and reliance on the U.S., the Philippines is now confronted with rising tensions in the South China Sea. Richard Heydarian illuminates a brewing rivalry between the Great Power Triangle of China, the U.S., and Japan, while showing how the dynamics among these three interact with the interests of the smaller countries in the region, like the Philippines and Vietnam. The Philippines is a timely and comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution of foreign policies toward the Philippines in recent decades and tracing how the state has sought to defend its territorial integrity, amid the rise of China and the U.S., as the pivot to their jostle for dominance in South East Asia. This is a provocative analysis of how the foreign policy of the world's major political players will play a central role in shaping the Philippines and its surrounding region, and the power shifts that resonate globally.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Asia's New Battlefield
• Subtitle: US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific
• Author: Richard Javad Heydarian
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781783603138
• ISBN: 1783603135
• ID: 09022261
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 576 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 145 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2015

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