China 100 Years Down the Line: Before and After the War of Asia
... of transformative existential effect on Asia that the First and Second world wars had on Europe? Will it manage to do away with the aggressive Westphalian nationalism on the Asian continent? A heated war in Asia could be followed by a cold peace. The Asia-Pacific Region will continue to be split into hostile blocs. Nationalism will remain, waiting for the right moment to instigate a new war. There is hope, however, that a large-scale war in Asia will discredit nationalism as an ideology, and that its confrontational logic will be abandoned completely. And just like ...