Asian Security Practice: Material and Identional Influences.(Review) (book review)

Asian Security Practice: Material and Identional Influences. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 85lp. $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

The center of gravity of the international system has shifted in recent decades. In 1960, Asian countries produced only one-fifth of the world's goods and services, versus two-thirds for Europe and North America combined. Thirty years later Asia's share had grown to roughly one-third, while that of the Atlantic community had fallen to around one-half. Some time in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, ...

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