HARD INTERESTS, SOFT ILLUSIONS: SOUTHEAST ASIA AND AMERICAN POWER

Book ID/图书代码： 03360011B50671

English Summary/英文概要： in Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, natasha Hamilton- Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—indonesia, Malaysia, the phil- ippines, thailand, Singapore, and vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform spe- cific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interests—in this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asia—and illusions.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在本书中，娜塔莎.汉密尔顿.哈特主要探讨了领衔南亚—印尼、马来西亚、菲律宾、泰国、新加坡以及越南——外交政策的信念。作者认为美国是一个相对温和的强国，而这一信念是支撑美国在南亚地区取得卓越地位的重要因素，这是因为信念决定具体的外交策略，也是结盟或对立与否的基础。不过，那些具有基石作用的信念并不简单地折射出客观的事实以及合理化程序。汉密尔顿.哈特声称美国与南亚国家皆受利益和幻想所趋，尤其是南亚统治团体的政治和经济利益。(兼职翻译-XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：“A major strength of Hard Interests, Soft Illusions is its perceptive point of depar- ture. natasha Hamilton-Hart describes the U.S. position in east Asia as hegemonic, despite official discourses in the region portraying the United States as an offshore ‘balancer.’ Hamilton-Hart suggests that if anybody needs to be ‘balanced’ against (in pure power terms), it is the United States. the book invites us to make a distinction between the political, administrative, and economic elites who, according to her, gain disproportionately from the U.S. role in the region and the general popu- lations of the region, who gain little. Whether or not one agrees with Hamilton-Hart’s thesis, it is a book well worth reading.”
—yuen Foong Khong, university of oxford

About the Author/作者介绍： 娜塔莎.汉密尔顿.哈特是奥克兰大学管理与国际关系学院的副教授，她出版过的作品包括《亚洲国家》《亚洲银行家：东南亚中枢银行业》。

Natasha hamilton-hart is Associate professor in the Department of Management and international Business at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia, also from Cornell.

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