National Security Strategy of the United States, 2010 http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf
The United States in the New Asia Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/asia/united-states-new-asia/p20446
Books
History of U.S. Asia-Pacific Hegemony
American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific Peter Hayes, Lyuba Zarsky, Walden Bello, Penguin Press
Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Joseph Gerson, Pluto Press
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic Chalmers Johnson, Metropolitan Books
Military Bases
The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against Military Bases Catherine Lutz, Pluto Press
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia David Vine, Princeton University Press
The Sun Never Sets….Confronting the Network of U.S. Foreign Military Bases Joseph Gerson & Bruce Birchard, eds., South End Press
China (and U.S. & China)
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton James Mann, Alfred A. Knopf
Across the Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 Crisis Suisheng Zhao, ed., Routledge
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia David C. Kang, Columbia University Press
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present Peter Hessler, HarperCollins
Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival John Kenneth Knaus, Public Affairs Press
Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship Richard Rosecrance & Gu Guoliang eds., Public Affairs Press
Taiwan: A New History Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., M.E. Sharpe
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers Richard McGregor, HarperCollins Publishers
The Search for Modern China Jonathan D. Spence, W.W. Norton & Co.
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood Orville Schell, Metropolitan Books
Korea:
Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History Bruce Cumings, W.W. Norton, Ltd.
Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis Ike Chinoy, St. Martin’s Press
Negotiating on the Edge: North Koren Negotiating Behavior Scott Snyder, United States Institute of Peace Press
North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis John Feffer, Seven Stories Press
The Korean War: A History Bruce Cumings, The Modern Library
Japan
The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History Walter LaFeber, W.W. Norton, Ltd
The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation Karel van Wolferen, Alfred A. Knopf
Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power Laura Hein & Mark Selden, eds., Rowman & Littlefield
Japan in War & Peace: Selected Essays John W. Dower, The New Press
Japan; A Reinterpretation Patrick Smith, Pantheon
Okinawa: Cold War Island Chalmers Johnson, ed,, Japan Policy Research Institute
Okinawa: The History of an Island People George H. Kerr, Tuttle Press
Partnership: The United States and Japan: 1951-2001 Akira Iriye & Robert A. Wampler eds., Kodansha
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the Surrender of Japan Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Harvard University Press
Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Post War Japan Merion and Susie Harries, MacMillan
Pacific
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai’i Haunani-Kay Trask, University of Hawai’I Press
Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific Setsu Shigematu & Keith L. Camacho, University of Minnesota Press
The Philippines: Land of Broken Promises James B. Good no, Zed Press
The Philippines Reader Daniel B. Schiremer & Stephen R. Shalom, eds, South End Press
Regional
China and Japan in the Global Setting Akira Iriye, Harvard University Press
The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations Richard Bush, Brookings Institute Press
South Asia
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia Ayesha Jalal, Cambridge University Press
India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation George Perkovich, University of California Press
Out of the Nuclear Shadow] Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian, eds, Zed Books
Shopping For Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network Gordon Corera, Oxford University Press