Useful Adversaries - 9780691026374
Un libro in lingua di Christensen Thomas J. edito da Princeton Univ Pr, 1996
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Useful Adversaries
- Sottotitolo: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Christensen Thomas J.
- Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
- Collana: Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 28 Gennaio '96
- Genere: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0691026378
- EAN-13: 9780691026374