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The Pivot

The Future of American Statecraft in Asia

by Kurt Campbell
Marc Vietor
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From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia.
There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval in the Middle East and South Asia and the hovering drone attacks of the war on terror. The United States is in the midst of a substantial and long-term national project, which is proceeding in fits and starts, to reorient its foreign policy to the East. The central tenet of this policy shift, aka the Pivot, is that the United States will need to do more with and in the Asia-Pacific hemisphere to help revitalize its own economy, to realize the full potential of the region's dramatic innovation, and to keep the peace in the world's most dynamic region where the lion's share of the history of the twenty-first century will be written.
This book is about a necessary course correction for American diplomacy, commercial engagement, and military innovation during a time of unrelenting and largely unrewarding conflict. While the United States has intensified its focus on the Asia-Pacific arena relative to previous administrations, much more remains to be done.
The Pivot is about that future. It explores how the United States should construct a strategy that will position it to maneuver across the East and offers a clarion call for cunning, dexterity, and ingenuity in the period ahead for American statecraft in the Asia-Pacific region.

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    June 28, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781478966807
      • File size: 446042 KB
      • Duration: 15:29:15

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      May 15, 2016
      A former top diplomat promotes the much-ballyhooed "Pivot to Asia.""The arc from Japan and China to India is the most dynamic in the world, home to the world's fastest-growing economies, its largest middle class, and some of its most dangerous security hotspots," declares former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Campbell (co-author: Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power, 2008, etc.). The United States, however, has a long history of treating Asia as a "secondary theater," sporadically engaging with it and then turning away to deal with Europe, the Middle East, or domestic concerns. This behavior, argues the author, serves the U.S. poorly, and he makes a compelling case for the "pivot," a redirection or rebalancing of American attention to Asia. Campbell begins by surveying Asia's astonishing size and economic muscle and then summarizes American policy in Asia from the 1850s to the present. The heart of his argument is a 10-point American strategy for Asia, in which the author sets out in considerable detail his recommendations for intensified political, economic, and military engagement with the various nations of the continent. While Campbell covers American relations with an emerging China at length, he emphasizes that the pivot is not about that country alone but about "embed[ding] China policy within a much wider and more inclusive regional framework." Finally, the author addresses obstacles to the pivot's implementation, particularly Americans' exhaustion with foreign affairs and skepticism of trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Campbell considers "the true sine qua non of the Pivot." Given his diplomatic experience, the author is well-informed and deeply thoughtful, but too much of his book reads like a PowerPoint presentation or policy briefing. Discussions of various countries or regions are designed to be read separately, which means that common observations are frequently repeated. The work is thorough and earnestly presented but not engaging. Invaluable for Asia policy wonks but not recommended for general readers.

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