具体描述
As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive study of China's territorial disputes, Strong Borders, Secure Nation contends that China over the past sixty years 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.
By developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, Fravel explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force. When faced with internal threats to regime security, especially ethnic rebellion, China has been willing to offer concessions in exchange for assistance that strengthens the state's control over its territory and people. By contrast, China 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. Drawing on a rich array of previously unexamined Chinese language sources, Strong Borders, Secure Nation offers a compelling account of China's foreign policy on one of the most volatile issues in international relations.
作者简介
M. Taylor Fravel is Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, a Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In March 2010, he was named Research Associate with the National Asia Research Program launched by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center.
目录信息
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE: Cooperation and Escalation in Territorial Disputes 10
CHAPTER TWO: Cooperation in Frontier Disputes in the 1960s 70
CHAPTER THREE: Cooperation in Frontier Disputes in the 1990s 126
CHAPTER FOUR: Escalation in Frontier Disputes 173
CHAPTER FIVE:Homeland Disputes 220
CHAPTER SIX: Offshore Island Disputes 267
CONCLUSION 300
APPENDIX: Overview of China's Territorial Disputes 321
Bibliography 335
Index 363
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In Strong Borders, Secure Nation, Taylor Fravel provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis on China’s territorial disputes since 1949. Adopting a state-centric view, he develops a general theory of how and when a state compromises or escala...
In Strong Borders, Secure Nation, Taylor Fravel provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis on China’s territorial disputes since 1949. Adopting a state-centric view, he develops a general theory of how and when a state compromises or escala...
In Strong Borders, Secure Nation, Taylor Fravel provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis on China’s territorial disputes since 1949. Adopting a state-centric view, he develops a general theory of how and when a state compromises or escala...
In Strong Borders, Secure Nation, Taylor Fravel provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis on China’s territorial disputes since 1949. Adopting a state-centric view, he develops a general theory of how and when a state compromises or escala...
In Strong Borders, Secure Nation, Taylor Fravel provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis on China’s territorial disputes since 1949. Adopting a state-centric view, he develops a general theory of how and when a state compromises or escala...
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Category Killer，批判了Offensive Realism和Diversionary War Theory，继承和发扬了State-Centrism(though problematic)和Preventive War Theory。不过对Declining Claim Strength的处理草率了，和external threat的相关性过高；Perception也没处理好；还有escalation和compromise的关系不明确。
理论全砍再加一星。
Category Killer，批判了Offensive Realism和Diversionary War Theory，继承和发扬了State-Centrism(though problematic)和Preventive War Theory。不过对Declining Claim Strength的处理草率了，和external threat的相关性过高；Perception也没处理好；还有escalation和compromise的关系不明确。
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