Strait Talk - United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis With China

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Bernkopf Tucker was Professor of History at Georgetown University and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Zusammenfassung Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Tucker traces the thorny relationship between the United States and Taiwan as both watch China’s power grow. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Contents * Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Landscape and Memory * In the Context of the Cold War * The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity Detente * Taiwan Expendable? * Survival Ford's Tribulations * Collapse and Reprieve Moral Imperatives; Military Challenges * Derecognition * Final Act * The Taiwan Relations Act Recognizing Your Friends and Enemies * The Reagan Difference * American Assurances The End of the Cold War * Shifting Ground Search for a New World Order * Change and Continuity * Taiwan Strait Crisis * Setting the Record Straight War against Terrorism * The Influence of Democracy * Conclusion: The Uses of Adversity * Abbreviations * Notes * Interviews * Bibliography * Index

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Tucker Nancy Bernkopf
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2011
• EAN: 9780674060524
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06052-4
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; China, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, Asian History, History of the Americas