Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security

Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the 'oceanic' lens as a structural imperative in grand strategic thinking. Despite extensive scholarship on postwar US-East Asia relations, questions about the relationship between maritime space, national sovereignty, and geopolitics have not been fully explored. Drawing on archives in Chinese, English, and Japanese, Chen uses the western Pacific as a historical platform, illustrating the relationship between the geopolitical value of the sea and the strategic deliberations of American and East-Asian decision making. The recent deterioration of US-China relations has turned maritime East Asia into a powder keg, with no country in the region able to remain neutral. By anchoring today's maritime East Asia in the past, this book traces the evolution of historical factors that led to the current status quo in the western Pacific, and shows the origins of controversial issues in the region.

將焦點從陸地轉移到海洋，關於東亞冷戰的討論，陳冠仁揭示了「海洋」視角在宏觀戰略思維中的重要性。儘管對戰後美東亞關係的研究已相當豐富，但有關海洋空間、國家主權和地緣政治之間關係的問題尚未得到充分探討。陳冠仁利用中、英、日三國的檔案資料，以西太平洋作為歷史平台，闡明了海洋地緣價值與美國和東亞決策制定的戰略思考之間的關係。近期美中關係的惡化使得東亞海洋地區成為一個火藥庫，該地區沒有一個國家能保持中立。本書通過將今日的東亞海洋置於歷史背景中，追溯了西太平洋地區現狀的演變，並展示了該地區爭議議題的起源。