In the early 1990s, the U.S.-Chinese-Soviet strategic triangle vanished into history and, simultaneously, the U.S., China, and Japan formed their own power triad in the Asia-Pacific region. Is this another hostile strategic triangle? How do the three great powers interact with one another? Ming Zhang and Ronald Montaperto tackle these questions and present their thoughtful answers in A Triad of Another Kind. Investigating elite perception, domestic constraint, and international distribution of power, the authors find the triangular relationship full of uncertainty but not necessarily of hostility. They reveal the distinguishing characteristics of this triad, including its tendency to function as a reciprocal entity, rather than forming two-against-one relationships. A Triad of Another Kind is the first full-length work that critically examines the U.S.-China-Japan triangle, posing relevant questions and providing up-to-date analyses of this relatively new international pattern.

A Triad of Another Kind: The United States, China, and Japan

Politics & Social Sciences

Zhang, Ming

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This inside look at the history and politics of China's changing nuclear posture is based on extensive analysis of Chinese and Western documents and interviews conducted in China. The new data, future scenarios, and unique perspective make it essential reading for any assessment of China's nuclear future. A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book

China's Changing Nuclear Posture: Reactions to the South Asian Nuclear Tests

History

Military

Brookings Inst Pr

Review\n“Written by the leading experts on regional planning at this scale, this timely book will become a go-to source." -- Barbara Faga, Professor of Professional Practice in Urban Design, Rutgers University\n“Megaregions are an essential framework for understanding the economic, environmental, social, and climate change challenges we now face. This is the seminal book on a concept critical to our future—from the authors who conceived and mapped its contemporary definition, challenges, and opportunities. Agglomeration effects on economic growth, new communication technologies, emerging transportation modes, and codependent environmental forces will shape the future of our cities into megaregions. This book gives us the understanding and tools to steer them toward equity, resilience, and sustainability.” -- Peter Calthorpe, Senior Vice President, HDR\n“This ambitious book makes the case for recognizing American megaregions as a driver of policy, planning, and investment. It provides a road map for breaking down jurisdictional boundaries to address urgent needs in affordable housing, ecosystem vulnerability, and transportation-system connectedness—and it is essential reading for anyone hoping to broaden their thinking about our national trajectory.” -- Sara C. Bronin, Professor, Cornell University\n“In Megaregions, authors Yaro, Zhang, and Steiner productively “rediscover” the region as a category of political, ecological, and economic order particularly well suited to address contemporary challenges associated with ongoing urbanization. The volume presents a timely and provocative rereading of the region as an instrument of planning, combining equal parts empirical analysis and spatial proposition. Megaregions is painstakingly researched, exquisitely composed, and beautifully written. It offers a sober yet optimistic lens through which to project the future of the American city and its prospects in relation to the ongoing project of America.” -- Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director, Harvard University Graduate School of Design\n“Yaro, Zhang, and Steiner successfully present a coherent rationale for the “megaregion,” which is the next focus area for the planning profession. The authors correctly argue that it is the best scale for infrastructure investment. Advocacy for a new grass roots institutional structure is the key to success.” -- Michael Morris, P.E. Transportation Director, MPO for Dallas-Fort Worth region\n“Written by the leading experts on regional planning at this scale, this timely book will become a go-to source.”\n— Barbara Faga, Professor of Professional Practice in Urban Design, Rutgers University\nMegaregions can help the United States contend with its mega-challenges. With shared economies, natural resource systems, infrastructure, history, and culture, these linked networks of metropolitan areas and their hinterlands—such as the Southwestern Sun Corridor or Great Lakes—can strengthen climate resilience, natural resource management, economic competitiveness, and equity at the local, regional, and national levels in the United States. 
This source book provides updated demographic, economic, and environmental information on U.S. megaregions for urban and regional planners, policy makers, academics, and decision makers in transportation, environmental protection, and development agencies. The book reviews the origins of the megaregion concept and the economic, ecological, demographic, and political dynamics. Readers will understand trends, processes, and innovative practices within and between megaregions and identify the most pressing challenges that demand strategic decisions and actions.

Megaregions and America's Future

Yaro, Robert D.

Steiner, Frederick

Social Sciences

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Man of Prowess in Power: Rules of Games in Warlord Group (Chinese Edition)

Shanxi Peoples Publishing House

Zhang Ming 4: Rural social power and cultural structural change 1903-1953 ( Collection )(Chinese Edition)

Shaanxi People's Publishing House

Restate Chinese Modern History (Chinese Edition)

China Zhigong Press

Health illnesses and a bowl of porridge(Chinese Edition)

Tianjin Publishing Media Group

the space of history (paperback)(Chinese Edition)

Zhuhai Publishing House; 1 (September 2007 1)

Highlights of Beijing

Travel

Asia

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