America's strategy in Southeast Asia; from the Cold War to the Terror War.9780742553583 America's strategy in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. ; from the Cold War to the Terror War. Tyner, James A. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 241 pages $29.95 Paperback DS526 Tyner (geography, Kent State U.) examines US empire-building in Southeast Asia in terms of what he calls "geographic imperatives" that are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. His thesis is that the discursive dis·cur·sive adj. 1. Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling. 2. Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition. construction among US foreign policy makers of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) An entity or geographic feature that occupies a position in space about which data describing the attributes of the entity and its geographic location are recorded. following World War II was largely a product of American imperial objectives, including the wish for an economically strong and pro-Western Japan able to contain communism communism, fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both . He also contends that post-September 11th geographic understandings of Southeast Asia generally share continuities with the previous era. The overarching o·ver·arch·ing adj. 1. Forming an arch overhead or above: overarching branches. 2. Extending over or throughout: "I am not sure whether the missing ingredient . . . goal of the work is to demonstrate how the construction of supposedly objective geographic knowledge often masks the hidden state imperatives that are mentioned above. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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