1st Edition

War or Peace? The Indo-Pacific on the Cusp

By Dennis Hardy Copyright 2026
204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The world order is changing. And the Indo-Pacific is at the heart of it. In these uncertain times, this book asks the crucial question: will there be war or peace? America remains immensely powerful, but China aims for world primacy. Where does this binary struggle leave India? And what about Japan, rearming for the first time since 1945? As if that were not enough, North Korea is aligning... Read more

Prologue

Part I                  Indo-Pacific

Chapter 1          Confluence of oceans

Chapter 2          Your land is my land

Chapter 3          The world turned upside down

Part II   Fault lines

Chapter 4         When America ruled the world

Chapter 5          The second long march

Chapter 6          Nascent superpower?

Chapter 7          The edge of Eurasia    

Chapter 8          The trouble with islands

Chapter 9          Islamia

Part III On the cusp

Chapter 10       War or peace?

Postscript

Index

Biography

Dennis Hardy is an independent researcher, having spent most of his academic career in London. He has written books on subjects including Utopianism, Mediterranean Cities, New Towns, and various aspects of Social History. With a background in Geography, his interests now focus on Geopolitics.