East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William C. Kirby Read Quote
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. William C. Kirby Read Quote
I don’t believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard. William C. Kirby Read Quote
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century. William C. Kirby Read Quote
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. William C. Kirby Read Quote
I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia. William C. Kirby Read Quote
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. William C. Kirby Read Quote
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state. William C. Kirby Read Quote
