China, the United States and 21st-century Sea Power: Defining a Maritime Security Partnership

摘要

It is unusual for a book on military affairs to be suffused with optimism, but this one is optimistic as well as interesting. It consists of papers presented at a Conference at the US Naval War College in December 2007, with some added later. The authors and editors do a good job of integrating and relating subsequent events up to March 2010. Even so, sad to say, the prospects for military maritime co-operation appear far less promising in mid-2011 than they did in early 2010.