ISBN: 9780691026374

This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek''s KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman''s policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao''s initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman''s limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao''s self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders'' desire to avoid actual warfare. Books > History > Politics > Foreign Affairs List_Books, [PU: Princeton University Press]

ISBN: 9780691026374

This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek''s KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman''s policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao''s initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman''s limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao''s self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders'' desire to avoid actual warfare. Books List_Books, [PU: Princeton University Press]

1996, ISBN: 9780691026374

Princeton University Press, Taschenbuch, 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-10-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 1 halftone 16 line illus. 1 map 4 tables, 1.06 kg, Verkaufsrang: 47433, Staatsführung, Politikwissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaft, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Politik nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Internationale Politik, Politik nach Bereichen, Princeton University Press, 1996

1996, ISBN: 9780691026374

Princeton University Press, Taschenbuch, 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-10-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 1 halftone 16 line illus. 1 map 4 tables, 1.06 kg, Verkaufsrang: 47433, Staatsführung, Politikwissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaft, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Politik nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Internationale Politik, Politik nach Bereichen, Princeton University Press, 1996

ISBN: 0691026378

Useful Adversaries ab 54.99 € als Taschenbuch: Grand Strategy Domestic Mobilization and Sino-American Conflict 1947-1958. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales, Princeton University Press