The Future of Asia: Is Maintaining the Balance Synonym of Avoiding the Conflict?

Abstract

Asia appears to host the future nerve centers for international economics and politics'. To what extent is this popular vision accurate? Does Asia even have the awareness of constituting a bloc, or is this concept completely Western? Is Asia condemned to endure Chinese power, or can things turn out differently? Indeed, we will see that trans-national and regional movements have endorsed the development of nationalism and bellicism, that are paradoxically tampered by national interests.