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Presents the text of a speech given by John F. Cooper, a professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Tennessee, on August 20, 2003, which deals with the influence of neo-conservatives on the policy of the U.S. towards East Asia. Description of neo-conservatives; Discussion on the disconnect between classical liberalism and modern liberalism; Criticisms from neo-conservatives against liberals and the United Nations.

Presents a speech by John F. Copper, a professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, delivered at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri on April 21, 2001. Taiwan's views of the United States China policy and reasons why these views should not be disregarded; Taiwan's various ethnic groups and political system; Democratization of Taiwan; Need for the U.S. to guarantee Taiwan's right to decide its own future.

Presents a speech by John F. Copper, professor of International Studies, delivered at a U.S. Office of Personnel Management Conference, March 14, 1990. The Pacific Rim which is the biggest part of Asia and the most dynamic; Conceptualization of the Pacific Rim; Japan's enormous financial strength; Failure of communism in Asia; U.S. relations with the Pacific Rim.

Speech by John F. Copper, The Stanley J. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee delivered at the Annual Conference of the Asian-Pacific Interparliamentary Union in Taipei, Taiwan on July 26, 1984. US East Asia policy changed drastically in 1969, with the end of postwar policy of containment. The US must now resist protectionism and compete with the dynamic countries of the Pacific, while cooperating with the Western Pacific countries. Foreign policy; History; Importance; Economics.

Presents speech by a professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, given before the Sixth International Symposium on China on November 8, 1997, dealing with the foreign relations of the United States with China.

When Deng Xiaoping assumed the mantle of political power in 1978, he set in motion reforms that significantly changed China. Maoist China had been communist, totalitarian, egalitarian, and poor. Deng's [...]

After former President George Bush sold F-16 fighters to Taiwan in 1992, high-ranking Chinese military officers demanded that Party Secretary Jiang Zemin put an end to 'tolerance and forbearance toward [...]

Shelley Rigger. Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. London: Routledge, 1999. ix, 229 pp. Paperback $29.95, ISBN 0-415-17209-8. Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy is a well-researched, well-written, and perceptive [...]

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION It may surprise some when I say that Taiwan's widely reported and in many ways very important presidential election held on March 18 did little or nothing [...]