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100			_aHisiung, James C. (ed.)
245		0	_aAsia and U.S. foreign policy / edited by James C.Hsiung and Winberg Chai
260			_aNew York
260			_bPraeger Pub.
260			_c1981
300			_a263 p.
520			_aThe idea behind this book germinated at the time of the International Studies Association (ISA) annual meeting in Los Angeles, in March, 1980. The present co-editors jointly chaired a panel entitled "Asia in U.S. Foreign Policy," at which six papers were presented. The slight change in the title to "Asia and U.S. Foreign Policy," substituting "and" for "in," which now appears on the book cover, indicates a more than slight shift in emphasis and perspective. We are treating Asia as more than a variable or passive object in U.S. foreign policy calculations. Asia is also a unit or entity comprising independent actors whose willful-volitional acts may at times frustrate our best scenarios and call for drastic policy responses or revisions on our part. "Asia and U.S. Foreign Policy," thus, conveys this sense of interaction be tween the United States and its Asian neighbors and an appreciation of the fact that U.S. policy initiatives constitute only half of what foreign policy is about, the other half being our reactions to changing circumstances and in itiatives by our adversaries and allies abroad.
650			_aAsia foreign relations - United States
700			_aChai, Winberg (ed.)
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