From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2001 book about which Book News wrote: Over the past 25 years, Carver (Georgia Institute of Technology) has spent much time in China and India engaged in a number of
This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.
In recent years, Iran's nuclear aspirations have dominated its relations with the United States and Europe. China stands as Iran's staunchest ally on the UN Security Council, as well as its primary so
Taiwan's first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to
"Could not be timelier...At a time when Washington is trying to cajole China into helping to halt Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, diplomats and scholars ought to put
The evolution of the the People's Republic of China in world politics is an epic story and one of the most important developments in modern world history. Yet to date, there are no authoritative histo
The United States has been deeply involved in the Middle East for more than a half century and seized with China's role in the world for a similar period of time. Up to now, the two issues have remai
This book analyses the political and economic challenges Taiwan has faced since its democratic revolution began with the lifting of martial law in 1987. Taiwan's Democracy will be of huge interest to
Taiwan’s rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next
