Beyond Power Transitions - The Lessons of East Asian History Future of U.s. China Relations

Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. What Are the Lessons of History?
2. The Common Conjecture in War and Peace: Culture, Not Structure
Part II. History
3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500–1900: Internal Challenges, Not External Threat
4. The Mongol Conquest of the Thirteenth Century and the Song–Yuan Transition
5. The Small Attack the Large: The Imjin War, 1592–1598
6. Internal Collapse: The Ming–Qing Transition, 1600–1680
7. How Korea Remained Independent Until 1910: The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large States
Part III. Contemporary U.S.–China Relations
8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First Century
Part IV. Conclusion
9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East Asia
Appendix: Journal Rankings and Journal Articles on Power Transition
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Xinru Ma is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Her scholarship focuses on nationalism, great power politics, and East Asian security.

David C. Kang is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Korean Studies Institute. His Columbia University Press books include East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (2010) and, with Victor D. Cha, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (revised and updated edition, 2018).

Summary

Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace.

Product details

• Authors: David Kang, David (University of Southern California) Ma Kang, Xinru Ma
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2024
• EAN: 9780231205375
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20537-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Chinese history; international relations