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ASIA’S CAULDRON: THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND THE END OF A STABLE PACIFIC
Robert D Kaplan (b. 1952) is the American author of many books on foreign affairs, geopolitics and travel. Over three decades his work has been has appeared in many prestigious American publications. A frequent theme is the reemergence of cultural and historical tensions temporarily suspended during the Cold War. Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.To understand the future of conflict in East Asia, Kaplan argues, one must understand the goals and motivations of its leaders and its people. Part travelogue, part geopolitical primer, in Asia’s Cauldron – published 2014 – Kaplan takes readers on a journey through the region’s boom cities and ramshackle slums and, in so doing, offers a vivid snapshot of the nations surrounding the South China Sea, the conflicts brewing in the region at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and their implications for global peace and stability.
Raymond Kolter is Professor of International Relations at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), and a scholar of Chinese history and politics at Fudan University.