There are two powerful myths about Asia that plague any debate over whether it exists as a region. One treats Asia as essentially an outsider's invention. The other conflates it with the "rise of Asia". Both are misleading, the latter even more so than the former.......
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http://www.nbr.org/publications/asia_policy/ap9/AP9_B_AsiaTrainRT.pdf
Amitav Acharya, "The Idea of Asia," Asia Policy, No. 9 (January 2010). In Roundtable on Training the Next Generation of Asia Experts, by Richard Ellings and Robert M. Hathaway, Christopher M. Clarke, Anand A. Yang, David B. Bobrow, Amitav Acharya, Parag Khanna.
