C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy and Derek J. Mitchell
China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities
Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008
China’s Rise will help the United States better comprehend the facts and dynamics behind China’s rapid development and its increasing role on the global stage. The authors suggest actions that both China and the United States can take that will not only maximize opportunities for China’s constructive integration into the international community but also help form a domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such policies. Dr. Freeman holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic & International Studies; Dr. Lardy is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Derek Mitchell is senior fellow and director for Asia in the Southeast Asia Initiative at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Richard C. Bush
At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942
M.E. Sharpe, 2004
“Bush discusses selected aspects of U.S.-Taiwan relations, primarily from the viewpoint of the U.S. policymakers.”
Bernard D. Cole
Sea Lanes and Pipelines: Energy Security in Asia
Praeger Security International
Sea Lanes and Pipelines describes the critical energy situation across Asia through examination of the energy resources, naval forces and national strategies in the region, set against the priorities and resources of the United States. As other nations, including the United States, have done in past decades, China is striving to establish proprietorship of energy resources from recovery in the ground to sale in the market place. Sea Lanes and Pipelines demonstrates the shortcomings of that strategy while illustrating the multilateral nature of energy security. Dr. Cole, a retired U.S. naval captain, is currently a professor of international history at the National War College, focusing on Chinese military and Asian energy issues.
Yong Deng
China’s Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations
Cambridge University Press, 2008
China’s Struggle for Status describes China’s remarkable rise from the periphery to the center stage of the post Cold-War world in terms of the country’s adaptation and proactive realignment of the international hierarchy and regional environment. Dr Deng, a professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy, draws on mainstream international relations theories as well as extensively from original Chinese material in his assessment of the promises and challenges of China’s domestic and international transitions amid evolving world politics.
Yong Deng and Fei-ling Wang, eds.
China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
“This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing's foreign policy. The authors focus on China's choices and calculations on issues such as the ruling Communist party-regime's interests, international status and image, nationalism, Taiwan, human rights, globalization, U.S. hegemony, international institutions, and the war on terrorism.”
David B. H. Denoon, ed.
China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
New York University Press, 2007
“In China, leading experts provide an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Edited with an introduction by David B. H. Denoon, an authority on China, this volume of articles covers recent events and key issues in understanding this growing superpower.”
M. Taylor Fravel
Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes
Princeton University Press, 2008
In the first comprehensive study of China’s territorial disputes, Dr. Fravel, an associate professor of political science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT, contends that over the past sixty years China has been more likely to compromise in these conflicts with its Asian neighbors and less likely to use force than many scholars or analysts might expect: when faced with internal threats, China has been willing to offer concessions in exchange for strengthening the state’s control over its territory and people; by contrast, it has used force to halt or reverse decline in its bargaining power in disputes with its militarily most powerful neighbors or in disputes where it has controlled none of the land being contested. The book draws on an array of previously unexamined Chinese language sources, and sheds new light on critical issues of China’s foreign policy.
Mel Gurtov and Peter Van Ness, eds.
Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific
New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
“Confronting the Bush Doctrine is the first book to take on the vitally important task of analysing how the Asia Pacific region sees and evaluates what the United States is doing. With contributions from an outstanding group of scholars, many of whom are based in the region, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource to all students and scholars of American and Asian politics.”
Alastair Iain Johnston
Social States: China in International Institutions 1980 – 2000
Princeton University Press, 2007
Social States, examines China’s participation in international security institutions during the crucial decades from 1980 to 2000. Dr. Johnston, the Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs at Harvard University, describes the effects of socialization in international relations to help explain the motivations for cooperation that may oppose material self-interest. Among key conclusions: Chinese officials in the post-Mao era adopted more cooperative commitments to arms control and disarmament treaties as a result of increased participation and interaction in international security institutions.
Lynne Joiner
Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America, and the Persecution of John S. Service
Naval Institute Press, 2009
Journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author Lynne Joiner's biography of John S. Service follows his life from his childhood in China (as the son of American missionaries) through his years in the U.S. State Department, to charges of disloyalty to rehabilitation and an academic career. The book represents ten years of research and writing.
While in Yan'an for the U.S. government in the 1940s, Service got to know Mao Zedong and other top guerilla leaders. He urged the American government not to take sides in China’s civil war and alerted top U.S. officials to the growing power of Mao's peasant revolution -- a movement that he predicted would change China and the world. His prescience backfired: he became a scapegoat for the "loss" of China, was attacked as a traitor during the Korean War, and was fired from the State Department in disgrace. It wasn’t until 1972 that a unanimous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court returned Service to the diplomatic corps.
Henry A. Kissinger
On China
Penguin Press, 2011
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century. In On China, Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny.
David M. Lampton
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds
University of California Press, 2008
In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political leaders, diplomats, and others in China, the United States, and countries on China's periphery, David M. Lampton investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's growing influence. The Three Faces of Chinese Power provides a fresh perspective on how China’s strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Dr. Lampton is director of China Studies and dean of faculty at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former president of the National Committee.
Daniel C. Lynch
Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to “Global Culture” in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan.
Stanford University Press, 2006
“This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture.”
Evan S. Medeiros
Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices 1980-2004
Stanford University Press, 2007
Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and their related goods and technologies.
Joseph S. Nye
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
PublicAffairs, 2004
“Coined by Nye in the late 1980s, the term “soft power”- the ability of a country to persuade others to do what it wants without force or coercion- is now widely invoked in foreign policy debates. This short book reintroduces the idea and argues for its relevance in forming post-September 11 U.S. foreign policy.”
Nicholas Platt
China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew. A Personal Memoir
Vellum, 2010
In China Boys, Ambassador Nicholas Platt discusses the resumption of U.S.-China relations in the 1960s and 1970s. The memoir chronicles the preparations and negotiations that went into Nixon’s 1972 trip; fourteen months later setting up the first American diplomatic office in the People’s Republic, in which he served; and some of the first exchanges between Americans and Chinese. He explains how National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and President Nixon saw the relationship as an international balancing act among the United States, China and the Soviet Union, delegating the “nuts and bolts” to then mid-level foreign service officer Platt and his colleagues. Over the years these “nuts and bolts” fastened together the United States-China relationship.
Shelley Rigger
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
Rowman & Littlefield, 2011
Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs often referred to as 'miracles.' She links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy.
David Shambaugh
China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
University of California Press
In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party.
Susan L. Shirk
China: Fragile Superpower
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
"A major statement about the present condition of China's political system and the hidden hazards on the road ahead."--Andrew Walder Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Mark Sidel and Iftekhar Zaman, eds.
Philanthropy and Law in South Asia
Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, 2004
“The essays collected here provide an extraordinary window into the complex relationship between philanthropy and the state in five countries of South Asia- Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.”
Bob Sutter
China’s Rise in Asia: Promises and Perils
Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
“That the Chinese approach to foreign affairs after the Cold War is strongly influenced by and related to its approach to the U.S. is the central argument made by Sutter in his examination of China’s evolving approach to relations with its Asian neighbors.”
Michael D. Swaine
America's Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-First Century
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011
The United States faces many challenges and opportunities in determining how to respond to China’s growing political, economic, and military influence. In this examination of U.S. policy towards China, Michael Swaine illustrates the fundamental assumptions and beliefs that inform U.S. foreign policy and strategy vis-à-vis Beijing. Swaine argues that three new sets of variables are reshaping U.S. policy: China’s growing power and global presence, the forces of economic and social globalization, and various nontraditional security threats, including pandemics and climate change. This volume assesses U.S. approaches to China over the past decade in seven policy arenas: relations among key Asian powers, bilateral and multilateral political and security structures, U.S. and Chinese military modernization and military-to-military activities, economic development and assistance, counterterrorism and counterproliferation, nontraditional security threats and the promotion of human rights and democracy.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China
Harvard University Press, 2009
The security policies of the United States, China and Taiwan have been intertwined since the 1950s, posing challenges to policymakers, international relations specialists and citizens on both sides of the Pacific. Dr. Tucker, a professor in the department of history and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, discusses the nature of American commitments to Taiwan, the intricacies of policy decisions, the intentions of critical participants, the impact of Taiwan’s democratization, the role of lobbying, and the accelerating difficulty of balancing Taiwan against China. Strait Talk provides a detailed look at the policies and people that have shaped the complex diplomatic relationships of the United States, China and Taiwan.
Alan Wachman
Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity
Stanford University Press, 2007
In Why Taiwan? Alan Wachman brings fresh ideas to the analysis of why the PRC has been so determined that Taiwan be a part of China and why, ultimately, Taiwan is considered worth fighting for.
Brantly Womack
China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry
Cambridge University Press, 2006
“The Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from the Bronze Age to the present.”
Chi Wang
George W. Bush and China
Lexington Books, 2008
This study analyzes United States policies regarding China during the administration of George W. Bush, and reviews significant developments in each of his two terms while tracing the influences of specific advisors on the President’s China Policy. The book highlights evidence that U.S. policies towards China were ultimately based on pragmatic national interest that overcame short-term ideological differences. Dr. Wang, president and chair of the United States-China Policy Foundation, chronicles shifts in American security priorities after September 11 that prompted Washington to embrace China in a measured partnership that contributed to the short-term stabilization of U.S.-China relations.
Suisheng Zhao, ed.
China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
Routledge, 2007
This book, written by leading scholars and policy analysts from both the US and China, explores the transformation and multifaceted nature of US-China relations, including how the political elite in both countries have defined their strategic objectives in response to Chinas rise and managed their relations accordingly.
Suisheng Zhao, editor
China and the United States: Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
China and the United States provides a detailed and comprehensive examination of the domestic and international dimensions of China’s rise as it affects Sino-American relations in Northeast Asia. The book includes perspectives on the general development of U.S. – China relations, specific issues that affect those ties, domestic politics and policy-making in both countries, and the impact of other countries on the Beijing-Washington relationship. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field, with the resulting analysis in many instances challenging conventional thinking. Dr. Zhao is a professor and executive director of the Center for China-U.S. cooperation at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies and founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China. Contributors to China and the United States include National Committee members Bonnie Glaser, Robert Hathaway, Steven Levine and Robert Sutter.