Reluctant Restraint - The Evolution of China s Nonproliferation Policies Practices, 1980

Zusatztext " Reluctant Restraint , the latest publication and one of the few single-volume treatises on China's arms control and nonproliferation policies, is a significant contribution to the field. Evan S. Medeiros has written a book that is rigorous in its conceptual and analytical framework, illuminating in its recounting of Sino-U.S. cooperation and disputes in an important issue area, and comprehensive in its use of both primary and secondary sources." Informationen zum Autor Evan S. Medeiros is a Senior Political Scientist at The RAND Corporation, in the Washington, DC. office. He has published on a broad range of issues related to China's foreign and national security policies. He previously worked on Asian security issues at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Klappentext This book examines how and why China has moved, over the last twenty years, from opposing nonproliferation of missiles and nuclear weapons to support proliferation. Zusammenfassung This book examines how and why China has moved, over the last twenty years, from opposing nonproliferation of missiles and nuclear weapons to support proliferation.

Product details

• Authors: Evan Medeiros, Evan S Medeiros, Evan S. Medeiros
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2007
• EAN: 9780804755528
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5552-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Studies in Asian Security; Studies in Asian Security (Har; Studies in Asian Security; Studies in Asian Security (Har
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education