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The end of engagement : America's China and Russia experts and U.S. strategy since 1989 / David M. McCourt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCourt, David M., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- United States--Foreign relations--China.
- United States.
- China--Foreign relations--United States.
- China.
- United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.
- Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In 'The End of Engagement', David M. McCourt traces the intense personal, professional, and policy struggles over China and Russia in U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Drawing on 200 original interviews with America's China and Russia experts - from former policymakers and diplomats to prominent think tankers and academics - McCourt chronicles the rise and recent fall of 'engagement' with Beijing and Moscow. Adopting a unique, sociological perspective, this book offers an intimate look into the world of America's national security experts as they have struggled to make sense of changes in China and Russia and the remaining question of what comes next.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Engaging China and Russia since 1989
- The End of the Post-Cold War Era
- The Argument in Brief
- America's China and Russia Experts
- The Usual Story: Engagement's Rise and Fall
- Existing Explanations
- Ideas into Action: Knowledge Communities and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Plan of the Book
- Part I Rethinking Engagement
- 1 What Was Engagement?
- The Era of Engagement Is Over
- Engagement with China Failed
- Relitigating Engagement
- Moving beyond Relitigation
- What Was E/engagement Again?
- The Three Faces of E/engagement
- Conclusion
- 2 From Engagement to Strategic Competition
- Strategic Competition: Reframing America's Approach to China under Trump
- The Strategic Competitors: Trump's National Security Team and China
- Operationalizing Strategic Competition as Policy
- Strategic Competition and the Biden Administration
- Whither Russia? Containing and Engaging with Moscow under Trump and Biden
- Part II The End of Engagement with China
- 3 Beyond Hawks and Doves: Polarization in the U.S. China Field
- The Engagers and their Critics: Taking Sides over China
- Knowing Your Enemy . . . and Your Friends
- To the Open Letters: The Consolidation of the Engagers and Anti-Engagers
- 4 Professional Status Oppositions and the Wisdom of Engagement
- Engagement in the U.S. China Field's Professional Status Competition
- 5 Engagement Is Personal
- Engagement's End: Vindication and Commiseration among America's China Watchers
- Part III Ending Engagement with Russia
- 6 The Russia-We-Have, or the Russia-We-Want? Polarization in the Russia Field
- The Russia-We-Have? Or the Russia-We-Want?
- To Know Your Enemy
- The Polarization of U.S.-Russia Relations.
- Conclusion
- 7 The Politics of U.S. Russia Expertise
- Russia in the U.S. National Security Community's Professional Status Competition
- Nuancing the Russia Debate
- The Open Letters Revisited
- or, Why the Different Camps See Russia as They Do
- Forgetting, and Unforgetting, Russia
- 8 Engagement with Russia Is Personal
- No Vindication to Be Had over Russia
- When Did You First Go to Russia? Generational Experiences and Russia-We-Have or Russia-We-Want
- George Kennan and Russia: Rethinking Containment, Not Reliving the 1940s
- "Do You Go to Valdai?"
- Fiona Hill between the Russia-We-Have and the Russia-We-Want
- The Case of Matthew Rojansky
- Conclusion: After Engagement
- The Failure of Engagement, Again
- Knowledge Communities and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Argument
- Engaging China without Engagers?
- Engaging Russia after the War in Ukraine
- Foreign Policy Expertise in Polarized Times: Final Reflections
- Methodological Appendix: Watching the China and Russia Watchers
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 5, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-776524-6
- 0-19-776522-X
- OCLC:
- 1433093249
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