Description: "This is the first book to provide comparative analysis of the grand strategies of great, middle, and small powers across East Asia. The contributors examine grand strategy as a state's pursuit of its long-term interests using all available means. East Asia is the pivotal region for twenty-first-century geopolitics and economics, especially US-China competition. The volume is comprised of twelve chapters covering China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The volume brings together top experts on each country, including scholars from many of the countries being examined. Each chapter looks at both external and domestic variables that influence the country's grand strategy, and the concluding chapter compares the twelve cases. Furthermore, the book heeds recent calls to expand the study of grand strategy beyond great powers"--
