The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security - Hardcover

Nathan, Andrew J.; Ross, Robert S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393040763 ISBN 13: 9780393040760

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Argues that the United States must understand China's foreign policy goals in order to ease tensions that will be created by the transfer of Hong Kong

About this title

Book Description:

Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell analyze China's security concerns on four fronts: at home, with its immediate neighbors, in surrounding regional systems, and in the world beyond Asia. By illuminating the issues driving Chinese policy, they offer a new perspective on the country's rise and a strategy for balancing Chinese and American interests in Asia. The authors probe recent troubles in Tibet and Xinjiang, exploring their links to forces beyond China's borders. They also consider the tactics deployed by mainland China and Taiwan, as the latter seeks to maintain autonomy in the face of Chinese advances toward unification, and they evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of China's three main power resources―economic power, military power, and soft power.

About the Author:

Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University. He is a prominent observer of Chinese politics, often writes for the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Review of Books. Robert S. Ross is professor of political science at Boston College.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393040763
• ISBN 13: 9780393040760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268