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Asia in Washington : exploring the penumbra of transnational power /
For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state paradigm is not as dominant as it once was. In Asia in Washington, longtime Asia analyst Kent Calder examines the concept of ""global city"" in th |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780815725398 0815725396 1306577330 9781306577335 |