The practice of power : US relations with China since 1949 / Rosemary Foot
- Bib ID:
- 2324107
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Foot, Rosemary, 1948-
- Description:
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- viii, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0198278780 (acid-free paper)
- Summary:
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In its careful reconstruction of evolving US positions on key issues in the relationship with China, this book is able to explain the change in American-Chinese relations after 1949 from hostility to rapprochement, and to the full normalization of ties in 1979. The author goes on to examine the relationship after normalization, a period when the United States has come to view China as less of a challenge, but still resistant to certain of the norms of the current international order.
The book begins by examining US efforts to build, and then maintain an international and domestic consensus behind its China policy, and its notes the steady erosion of support in both policy arenas. It then looks at changing US perceptions of China's capabilities, and shows how US officials came to have a deeper appreciation of the overall restraints on Beijing's power, especially as a result of the Sino-Soviet rift and the failure of policies associated with the Great Leap Forward. Finally, it examines the effects on the relationship of China's fuller exposure after 1979 to the ideas and values that predominate in the global system.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Power and the US-Chinese Relationship
- 2. US Hegemony and International Legitimacy: The Chinese Representation Issue at the United Nations
- 3. Trading with the Enemy: The USA and the China Trade Embargo
- 4. 'We the People': US Public Opinion and China Policy
- 5. Balancing Against Threats: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance
- 6. The Iron Wall: China's Conventional Military Capabilities
- 7. The Politics of Nuclear Weapons: China as a Nuclear Power
- 8. China as the 'Wave of the Future': The Chinese Politico-Economic Model
- 9. International Order and US Structural Power: The US Relationship with China since 1979
- 10. Summary and Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-285) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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