Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 203 - Softcover

Ross, Robert S.; Jiang, Changbin; Accinelli, Robert; Foot, Rosemary; Goldstein, Steven M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674005260 ISBN 13: 9780674005266

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other’s policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.–China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart’s policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

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About the Authors

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Jiang Changbin is Director of the International Strategic Research Center, Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, Beijing.

Robert Accinelli is Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Steven M. Goldstein is Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674005260
• ISBN 13: 9780674005266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528