Caroe (b. 1892) was British India's leading geopolitical thinker during the final years of the Raj, and he served as foreign secretary to Britain's Government of India during World War II. Brobst (history, Ohio U.-Athens) looks at his notions of power struggle in and over Asia, and how it fits into the post-Soviet, ascendant-China era. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)