Global Asia – a ‘ fascinating account’

Global Asia – a ‘ fascinating account’

Posted by on Dec 24, 2014 in Book, South China Sea | No Comments

Nayan Chanda, the much respected former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has written a lengthy review of the book for the excellent GlobalAsia website. He gives a good overview of the main elements of the book and adds a little vignette of his own about how the communist Vietnamese authorities issued a new map of the […]

WSJ ‘accessibility and accuracy’

WSJ ‘accessibility and accuracy’

Posted by on Dec 18, 2014 in Book, South China Sea | No Comments

A very nice review in the Wall Street Journal by Greg Poling of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. He calls the book, ‘the best combination of accessibility and accuracy so far published on the disputes’ – which is exactly what I hoped he would write! Greg’s a real expert on the nitty gritty of the […]

National Geographic Book Talk

National Geographic Book Talk

Posted by on Dec 11, 2014 in Book, South China Sea | No Comments

An interview with Simon Worrall for National Geographic‘s Book Talk blog. An edited version of our conversation that necessarily simplifies some of my thoughts. Given that Simon wrote National Geographic’s feature on the Belitung Shipwreck (which features in Chapter One of the book) he knows a lot more than me about what happened. He was nice enough not […]

An Economist ‘book of the year’

An Economist ‘book of the year’

Posted by on Dec 5, 2014 in Book, South China Sea | No Comments

I’m very pleased to say that The Economist has listed South China Sea – the struggle for power in Asia as one of its best books of 2014. I’m honoured that it’s among such exalted company as Evan Osnos’s Age of Ambition and Louisa Lim’s People’s Republic of Amnesia.  You can read the full list of books of the […]