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16 Jul 08
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Amazon.com: Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War (Asian Security Studies): Huiyun Feng: Books
Examining the major academic and policy debates over Chinas rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China.
Most of the scholarly works on Chinas rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the systemic impact on Chinas foreign policy. Traditional Realist theorists define China as a revisionist power eager to address wrongs done to them in history, whilst some cultural and historical analyses attest that Chinas strategic culture has been offensive despite its weak material capability.
Huiyun Fengs path-breaking contribution to the debate tests these rival hypotheses by examining systematically the beliefs of contemporary Chinese leaders and their strategic interactions with other states since 1949 when the communist regime came to power. The focus is on tracing the historical roots of Chinese strategic culture and its links to the decision-making of six key Chinese leaders via their belief systems.
Amazon.com: The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (American Academy Studies in Global Security): Jeffrey Lewis: Books
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Among the five nations authorized under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to possess nuclear weapons, China has the smallest nuclear force and maintains the most restrained nuclear posture. In The Minimum Means of Reprisal, Jeffrey Lewis examines patterns in Chinese defense investments, strategic force deployments, and arms control behavior to develop an alternative assessment of China's nuclear forces.
The Minimum Means of Reprisal finds that China's nuclear deployment and arms control patterns stem from the belief that deterrence is relatively unaffected by changes in the size, configuration, and readiness of nuclear forces. As a result, Lewis argues, Chinese policy has tended to sacrifice offensive capability in favor of greater political control and lower economic costs.
The future of cooperative security arrangements in space will depend largely on the U.S.-Chinese relationship. Lewis warns that changes in U.S. defense strategy, including the development of new strategic forces and the weaponization of space, will prevent the United States from reassuring China in the event that its leaders begin to lose confidence in their restrained deterrent. The result may further damage the already weakened arms control regime and increase the threat to the United States and the world. Lewis provides policy guidance for those interested in the U.S.-Chinese security relationship and in global security arrangements more generally.
Economics and foreign investment in China [WorldCat.org]
$80 http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Foreign-Investment-China-Cheng/dp/1600212387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215706786&sr=1-1
collection of essays
China
March 2008
Compiled by Sandhya Malladi
Bibliographer, Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL
Globalization's Impact on China's War Machine by John W. Ballard, NSA
Strategy Research Project
US Army War College
Found: WorldCat.org
China, the United States, and Southeast Asia contending perspectives on politics, security, and economics [WorldCat.org]
2008. Routledge
China turns to multilateralism : foreign policy and regional security [WorldCat.org]
2008. Routledge. NetLibrary
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy: Minxin Pei: Books
Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country's best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative book-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.
Amazon.com: Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent: Deborah Brautigam, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Mick Moore: Books
There is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks, armed militias. Why do governments fail? This book explores an old idea that has returned to prominence: that authority, effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness is closely related to the ways in which governments are financed. It matters that governments tax their citizens rather than live from oil revenues and foreign aid, and it matters how they tax them. Taxation stimulates demands for representation, and an effective revenue authority is the central pillar of state capacity. Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, this book presents and evaluates these arguments, updates theories derived from European history in the light of conditions in contemporary poorer countries, and draws conclusions for policy-makers.
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