TY - BOOK AU - KAPLAN Robert D. TI - Asia's cauldron: the South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific SN - 9780812994322 (hbk.) : PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Random House, KW - PACIFIC AREA KW - FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT KW - SOUTH CHINA SEA KW - INTERNATIONAL STATUS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries' worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a simmering pot of potential conflict ER -