Product Description: For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organized themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral organizations. As groups such as ASEAN Plus Three, from which Washington is excluded, become the locus of economic and financial integration, America's traditional "hub and spokes" approach to Asia —with the United States as the hub, bilateral alliances as the spokes, and multilateral institutions largely at the margins of American policy —has become unsustainable...read more

Product Description: With the Arab Gulf States supplying the major proportion to Asian energy needs, Gulf-Asia links will emerge as a key factor in the global energy scenario. What are the economic and strategic implications of Asia's growing dependence on Gulf oil? How far can Asian countries counter such dependence by improving energy efficiency and developing new sources? What are the energy transitions that Asian nations are undergoing? This book seeks to address these questions and other issues relating to the Asian energy sector including supply security, consumption trends, privatization moves, energy diversification, energy self-sufficiency and foreign investment...read more

Product Description: Robert A. Manning debunks key myths about the oil industry: that the world is running out of oil, that the Caspian Basin is the new Persian Gulf, that resource scarcity combined with military modernization, economic buoyancy, and nationalism will lead to military conflict, and that territorial disputes among Asian nations are fueled by resource competition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Debunks key myths about the oil industry: that the world is running out of oil; that the Caspian Basin is the new Gulf; that resource scarcity combined with military modernization, economic buoyancy, and nationalism will lead to military conflict; and that territorial disputes among Asian nations, such as those in the South China Sea, are fuelled by resource competition...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Rethinking the Transatlantic PartnershipAuthor: Geipel, Gary L. (EDT)/ Manning, Robert A. (EDT)/ Hudson Institute (COR)/ Progressive Policy InstituPublisher: Hudson InstPublication Date: 1996/07/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 9622609...read more