Author(s): Edward Mansfield, Avery Goldstein
Categories: Business & Economics > Economic Conditions
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
Publish date: 2012-08-29
ISBN-10: 0804782741
ISBN-13: 9780804782746
Language: English
Description:
While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of
gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained
surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era
of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of
enduring security problems in the region—from China's military
modernization, to unresolved territorial disputes, to persistent
tensions on the Korean peninsula.
This volume is one of the first to treat these issues of
economics and security as interconnected rather than separate.
Its authors—leading scholars from the U.S. and China—shed new
light on this important nexus… more…
While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of
gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained
surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era
of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of
enduring security problems in the region—from China's military
modernization, to unresolved territorial disputes, to persistent
tensions on the Korean peninsula.
This volume is one of the first to treat these issues of
economics and security as interconnected rather than separate.
Its authors—leading scholars from the U.S. and China—shed new
light on this important nexus… more…