America and the East Asian Crisis: Memos to a President

by Philip D. Zelikow (Editor), Robert B. Zoellick (Editor)

A new text in the Aspen policy series, this brief book encourages new thinking about U.S. national security, conflict reduction, and international policy. Arranged as a collection of memos from experts in academia and government to a president facing a policy challenge, each book in the series offers succinct explanations of the background and context behind a handful of key issues in a particular region of the world.

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 19, 2000

About the author

Philip D. Zelikow is an American diplomat, academic and author. He has worked as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and Counselor of the United States Department of State. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and was American Academy in Berlin Axel Springer Fellow in the autumn of 2009. He has written on terrorism, national security, public policy, peace settlements of WW1 and many significant events of the 20th century.