This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and
consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a …

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a more assertive China. What happened to
China's “peaceful rise” and “charm offensive”? What explains the changes in China's foreign …

China has emerged in the 21st century as a sophisticated, and sometimes contentious, actor
in the United Nations Security Council. This is evident in a range of issues, from negotiations …

For much of the 1990s, the world was warned of a looming China threat spearheaded by
hawkish soldiers.'More recently, however, experts con-tend that China's strategic intentions …

Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why
did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II …

China conducted a series of military exercises and missile tests in the vicinity of the Taiwan
Strait between July 1995 and March 1996. On July 18, 1995, Beijing announced that missile …

On May 25, 2009, North Korea conducted an underground test of a low-yield nuclear device,
flaunting a Security Council resolution that had been passed in the wake of that state's first …

Is China a rational, peaceful, and defensive‐minded power or an irrational, bellicose, and
expansionist state? Are Chinese soldiers more hawkish than Chinese statesmen? Many …

This chapter examines how to define and to understand the concept of" Third World,"
especially after the collapse of the bipolar, Cold War world. It also examines patterns in the …

Traditional analyses of Taiwan crises have relied mainly on deterrence theory for their
explanatory power. This approach fails to account for China's risk-taking behavior, which …