Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan

This best-selling book focuses on a resurgent Asia’s potential emergence as the global pivot. Asia’s significance in international relations is beginning to rival that of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. With the world’s fastest-growing markets, fastest-rising military expenditures and most serious hot spots, Asia holds the key to the future global order. Underpinning its renaissance, Asia has become the world’s economic locomotive even as its arts, fashion and cuisine regain international recognition. Yet, with interstate competition sharpening, Asia faces complex security, energy and development challenges in an era of globalization, including how to move beyond historical legacies and tap its dynamism for greater prosperity and wellbeing. The colossal shift in global geopolitics presents new opportunities to Asia and tests its ability to assume a bigger role in international relations. The book examines the ascent of Asia by focusing on its three main powers — China, India and Japan. A qualitative reordering of power in an Asia characterized by tectonic shifts is challenging strategic stability and effecting equations between these powers. How the China-Japan, China-India and Japan-India equations evolve in the coming years will have a crucial bearing on Asian and global security. The intensification of old rivalries and the assertion of national identities has made progress more imperative on an Asian security framework to bring important states together through shared goals and interests.