Looking for Balance : China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia.
Debate surrounding "China's rise," and the prospects of its possible challenge to America's preeminence in international relations in East Asia, has focused on two questions, rooted in power-balancing theory: whether the United States should "contain" or "engage&qu...
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Studies in Asian security.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Balance of Power, Power Balance, and Balancing; 3. Looking for Balancing: The Non-Occurrence of the Expected; 4. The Political Economy of Defense and Regime Strategy; 5. Balance-of-Power Expectations Versus Credible Commitment; 6. Growth, Trust, and Historical Comparisons; 7. Preferences, Intentions, and Multilateralism; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.