Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry and Asia's New Geopolitics

This slim volume is a sort of primer in contemporary Asian geopolitics. While much if not most of the material and analysis in Restless Continent might be gleaned from daily papers and such journals as Foreign Policy and the Diplomat, as well as the more specific volumes on various aspects of the issue, Michael Wesley's new book succeeds admirably in providing a clear overview in a single text. It has several things going for it: it doesn't waste the reader's time, being fewer than 200 efficient, well-argued pages. The author, furthermore, is Australian with no immediately obvious policy axe to grind; this book, unlike some others, helpfully exists somewhat outside the minutiae and assumptions of the US-specific policy debate.