Re-examining the Cold War : U.S.-China diplomacy, 1954-1973 / edited by Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Robert S., 1954-

Jiang, Changbin.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 203.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 203

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

International relations.

China.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

xv, 504 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other's policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S. - China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart's policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-478) and index.

ISBN:

0674005244

0674005260

OCLC:

47013139