TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Robert D. TI - Asia's cauldron: the South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific SN - 9780812984804 (pbk.) AV - JZ1980 .K37 2015 PY - 2015///, c2014 CY - New York PB - Random House, KW - Pacific Area KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government KW - South China Sea Region KW - Strategic aspects KW - South China Sea KW - International status. N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index; Prologue : the ruins of Champa -- The humanist dilemma -- China's Caribbean -- The fate of Vietnam -- The concert of civilizations? -- The good autocrat -- America's colonial burden -- Asia's Berlin -- The state of nature -- Epilogue : the slums of Borneo ER -