Miles Kahler Quoted on U.S.-Asia Economic Interdependence
U.S. seeks bigger role as power shifts to Asia
02/03/2011
Rowan Callick,
The Australian
What role will Brand USA play in Asia now it has emerged as President Barack Obama's top global focus? And how important will the regional groupings prove, for this process?
The first challenge for Washington is to complete the US recovery. Savings and productivity are both up and excess consumption is down. But unemployment has emerged as the big issue of the day - with companies making profits again, but not hiring. Jobs anxiety hangs like a gloomy cloud in the air.
In a recent poll, a majority of Americans said they thought international trade - which they viewed as sucking, not adding, jobs - was a negative for the US. There's a lot of leadership work to be done by Washington if Asian engagement is going to become an enduring bipartisan policy.
By comparison, as Miles Kahler, professor of Pacific international relations at the University of California, told a G'Day USA conference in Los Angeles recently: "Asia has had a good international crisis", with economic interdependence, including the US, becoming a pattern of regional architecture.
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Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at IR/PS and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. His principal areas of research are international relations and international political economy, particularly international institutions and global governance, Asian regional institutions, the evolution of the nation-state, and the political economy of international finance.
