Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power

by Kent E. Calder

Book Overview

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For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815725388
• ISBN13: 9780815725381
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"