The rise of China vs. the logic of strategy / Edward N. Luttwak.
By: Luttwak, Edward
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012General Notes: Includes index.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: ix, 310 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674066427 (alk. paper); 0674066421 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Geopolitics -- China | China -- Strategic aspects | China -- Military policy | China -- Foreign relations -- 1976-DDC classification: 355/.033551 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 355.033551 L978 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003622008 |
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The fallacy of unresisted aggrandizement -- Premature assertiveness -- "Great-state autism" defined -- Historical residues in Chinese conduct -- The coming geo-economic resistance to the rise of China -- China's aggrandizement and global reactions -- The inevitable analogy -- Could China adopt a successful grand strategy? -- The strategic un-wisdom of the ancients -- Strategic competence: the historical record -- The inevitability of mounting resistance -- Why current policies will persist -- Who will resist? Australia: weaving a coalition -- Japan: disengaging from disengagement -- Defiant Vietnam: the newest American ally? -- South Korea: a model Tianxia subordinate? -- Mongolia: northern outpost of the coalition? -- Indonesia: from ostracism to coalition? -- The Philippines: how to make enemies -- Norway: Norway? Norway! -- The three China policies of the United States -- Conclusions, assumptions, findings, predictions, envoi.
Argues that China, the most populous nation on Earth--and its second largest economy, may be headed for a fall.
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