This book is different from many other international relations analyses in its novelty. In an age when many academics publish "derivative" research, particularly Europeans, meaning that they criticise or praise each other usually by restating what someone else already has published, this book is no-derivative. Apart from referencing some Asian and Western international relations theories at the beginning to document the importance of research in this field generally, the author relies primarily upon his own participant observation and global news media reports from which he draws his own independent analysis from the rather innovative perspective of different genres of encirclement, arguing that in the final analysis only cultural encirclement is sustainable and that cultural encirclement is the strongest strategic asset held by the United States and the West.