1st Edition

Chinese Security Policy Structure, Power and Politics

By Robert Ross Copyright 2009
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars. Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international politics (including deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and war), and the sources of great-power... Read more

Introduction: Structure, Power, and Politics in Chinese Security Policy  Part 1: Great Power Politics and East Asian Security  1. China Learns to Compromise: Change in U.S.-China Relations, 1982-1984 (1991)  2. The Geography of the Peace: Great Power Stability in Twenty-First Century East Asia (1999)  3. The U.S.-China Peace: Great Power Politics, Spheres of Influence, and the Peace of East Asia (2003)  4. Balance of Power Politics and the Rise of China: Accommodation and Balancing in East Asia (2006)  Part 2: Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy in Chinese Security Policy  5. China and the Cambodian Peace Process: The Value of Coercive Diplomacy (1991)  6. The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and Use of Force (2000)  7. Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U.S.-China Relations (2002) Part 3: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy  8. International Bargaining and Domestic Politics:  Conflict in U.S.-China Relations Since 1972 (1986)  9. From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China's U.S. Policy (1989)  10. The Diplomacy of Tiananmen: Two-Level Bargaining and Great Power Cooperation (2001)

Biography

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College, Associate, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, and Senior Advisor, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.