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The end of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union has produced a sea-change in international relations. The impact has been felt worldwide but particularly to date in Europe. Asia has been somewhat slower to respond to the shifting international order, yet superpower détente has introduced substantial fluidity into intra-regional relationships and the role of the super-powers in the Asia-Pacific region.
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R. Holbrooke, R. MacFarquhar, and K. Nukazawa, East Asia in Transition: Challenges for the Trilateral Countries, Triangle Paper no. 35 (New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1988), p. 31.
For discussions of Asian Leninism see L. W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985);
R. Scalapino, ‘Asia’s Future’, Foreign Affairs (Fall 1987), pp. 91–5 in particular;
R. Scalapino, ‘Asia and the United States’, Foreign Affairs, vol. LXIX (1990) no. 1, pp. 89–115.
One could argue that this structure has existed throughout the post-war era, but in fact it was not until the late 1960s when Japan had fully recovered from the war, the Soviet Union began to show increased interest in East Asia, and China emerged from its Cultural Revolution isolationism, that this quadrangular equilibrium of power really took shape. For further discussion see A. D. Barnett, China and the Major Powers in East Asia (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1981).
See R. Holoran, ‘General Sees End to US Troops in Korea in ‘90s’, New York Times, 13 August 1989.
P. H. Kreisberg, ‘The US and Asia in 1990’, Asian Survey (January 1991), p. 8.
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Shambaugh, D. (1992). The American Role in Asia. In: Palmier, L. (eds) Détente in Asia?. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12480-0_1
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