Confronting the Bush Doctrine

Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific

Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness, Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780415355346
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134255047
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations in a very profound way. Many American commentators continue to talk about 9/11 as the day the world changed, but increasingly analysts around the world are concluding that more important than 9/11 have been the ideas that the Bush leadership brought into office in January 2001. Confronting the Bush Doctrine is the first book to take on the vitally important task of analyzing how the Asia Pacific region sees and evaluates what the United States is doing. With contributions from an outstanding group of scholars, many of whom are based in the region, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource to all students and scholars of American and Asian politics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Editors’ preface
• 1: American crusades
• 2: The Bush Doctrine and the North Korean nuclear crisis
• 3: Letting the genie out of the bottle
• 4: Talking American, acting Taiwanese
• 5: Chinese perspectives and responses to the Bush Doctrine
• 6: The Bush Doctrine, Russia, and Korea
• 7: With eyes wide shut
• 8: The dangers of American exceptionalism in a revolutionary age
• 9: The Bush Doctrine and Asian regional order
• 10: Australia and the Bush Doctrine
• 11: The North Korean nuclear crisis
• 12: Conclusion