Chris Miller

Miller's terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake.- Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace Miller presents a Russia little known in the West: a Eurasian power that treats its eastern calling as seriously...

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW AFTERWORD 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' — New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology Power in the modern world—military, economic, geopolitical—is built on a...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the...

An illuminating account of Russia's attempts—and failures—to achieve great power status in Asia. Since Peter the Great, Russian leaders have been lured by opportunity to the East. Under the tsars, Russians colonised Alaska, California, and Hawaii. The Trans-Siberian Railway linked Moscow to Vladivostok. And Stalin looked to Asia as a sphere of influence, hospitable to the spread of Soviet Communism....