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Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World.

Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World.(The Dragon Looks South: China and Southeast Asia in the New Century)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World. By Joshua Kurlantzick. Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover: 306pp.

The Dragon Looks South: China and Southeast Asia in the New Century. By Bronson Percival. Praeger Security International, 2007. Hardcover: 200pp.

The books under review are the latest entrants in what is becoming an impressive list of book-length studies dealing with the topic of China's recent rising influence in Asia and its implications for the United States. Both books deal heavily with the situation in Southeast Asia. The Percival study does so explicitly while the Kurlantzick book, despite its stated global scope, devotes about half of its discussion to Southeast Asia. China's rise seems likely to remain a hot topic in international affairs and both of these books have numerous insights and strengths that recommend them to a wide audience.

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