Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958

Name: Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958
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ISBN: 9780691026374

ISBN-10: 0691026378

ISBN-13: 9780691026374

Edition: 1997

Authors: Thomas J. Christensen

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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,…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.56" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Thomas J. Christensen is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and Director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of "Useful Adversaries" (Princeton). From 2006-2008, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.



List of Figures and Tables


Preface


Note on Translation and Romanization



Introduction



Grand Strategy, National Political Power, and Two-Level Foreign Policy Analysis



Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World



Absent at the Creation: Acheson's Decision to Forgo Relations with the Chinese Communists



The Real Lost Chance in China: Nonrecognition, Taiwan, and the Disaster at the Yalu



Continuing Conflict over Taiwan: Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the 1958 Quemoy Crisis



Conclusion



American Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1950



Mao's Korean War Telegrams


Bibliography


Index