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  • Rumbles of Thunder

    Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War

    by Steve Chan ...
    It is widely believed that shifts in the balance of power between an established hegemon and a rising upstart can lead to war. To what extent does this proposition hold true for Sino-American relations today?Steve Chan examines a range of international relations theories and popular narratives that suggest an elevated risk of confrontation between the two powers. Probing the recent deterioration ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations

    Lulls and Lurches across the Pacific

    by Steve Chan ...
    In many areas of the natural and physical world, long periods of seeming stasis or small incremental changes are interrupted by large, sudden leaps. This book illustrates how similar processes characterize international relations. This book points to such occurrences, for example the collapse of the USSR, the unravelling of Napoleon's wartime alliance, and the possible future status of the US ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Mobilizing the Past

    The Lessons of History and the Danger of War between China and the United States

    by Steve Chan ...
    Historical analogies are often utilized to frame and formulate foreign policies, illuminate issues of war and peace, and mobilize support for particular political programs. The historical record, however, can be distorted in a variety of ways, leading to overly simplistic, misleading conclusions that impair sound policy and scholarship. This danger is most imminent and palpable when there exists ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War

    by Steve Chan ...
    Series series Elements in Indo-Pacific Security
    The author presents contrarian arguments contesting mainstream US views on the danger of a Sino-American war over Taiwan's status. They contend that these countries' dispute about Taiwan is motivated by opposing strategic interests and security concerns rather than just, or even mainly, clashing values such as national reunification, sovereignty, democracy, and self-determination. The danger of a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes

    China, the United States, and the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation

    by Steve Chan ...
    How do interstate conflicts start, spread and escalate? Not all local or regional rivalries develop into devastating multistate wars, but those that do cause upheaval across the world. It is important, therefore, to study causal chains and pathways that can trigger a conflict of international proportions. Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the factors and processes that have historically ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Geography and International Conflict

    Ukraine, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and Sino-American Relations

    by Steve Chan, Weixing Hu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics
    This book analyzes the influence of geography— defined broadly to refer to physical size, location, terrain, accessibility, insularity, climate, regions, neighborhoods, natural endowment, strategic pathways, maritime and continental orientations and even imagined communities— on international relations.Drawing on evidence and insights from cross- national research the book highlights geography’s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift

    Implications for Competition between China and the United States

    by Steve Chan ...
    A country's culture influences its economic growth, which in turn influences its international position. Confucian heritage appears to be the common factor explaining the rapid economic growth of East Asian countries, including China's meteoric rise in recent years. Ironically, Confucianism has been criticized not too long ago for hindering progress in these countries. At the same time, Protestant ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Rumbles of Thunder

    Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War

    by Steve Chan ...
    It is widely believed that shifts in the balance of power between an established hegemon and a rising upstart can lead to war. To what extent does this proposition hold true for Sino-American relations today?Steve Chan examines a range of international relations theories and popular narratives that suggest an elevated risk of confrontation between the two powers. Probing the recent deterioration ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Contesting Revisionism

    China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order

    by Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, Kai He, Weixing Hu ...
    How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting Revisionism focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order: revisionism. The authors offer a critique of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Thucydides’s Trap?

    Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations

    by Steve Chan ...
    The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising powers threaten established powers. As China increases its power relative to the United States, the theory argues, the two nations are inevitably set on a collision course toward war. How enlightening is ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • East Asian Dynamism

    Growth, Order And Security In The Pacific Region, Second Edition

    by Steve Chan ...
    East Asian Dynamism continues to offer a succinct account of Pacific regional political economy from the dawn of the modern world system to projections of alternative futures. Steve Chan is a master at demystifying the geography, history, and culture of the region while bringing to life the current policy choices and dilemmas facing its people ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • China's Troubled Waters

    Maritime Disputes in Theoretical Perspective

    by Steve Chan ...
    How are China's ongoing sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas likely to evolve? Are relations across the Taiwan Strait poised to enter a new period of relaxation or tension? How are economic interdependence, domestic public opinion, and the deterrence role played by the US likely to affect China's relations with its counterparts in these disputes? Although territorial disputes have ... Read more

    $38.59 USD