Chinas Strategic Culture

Author : Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213143
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cultural Realism written by Alastair Iain Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.

Author : Huiyun Feng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134113722
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making written by Huiyun Feng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the major academic and policy debates over China’s rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China. Most of the scholarly works on China’s rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the systemic impact on China’s foreign policy. Traditional Realist theorists define China as a revisionist power eager to address wrongs done to them in history, whilst some cultural and historical analyses attest that China’s strategic culture has been offensive despite its weak material capability. Huiyun Feng’s path-breaking contribution to the debate tests these rival hypotheses by examining systematically the beliefs of contemporary Chinese leaders and their strategic interactions with other states since 1949 when the communist regime came to power. The focus is on tracing the historical roots of Chinese strategic culture and its links to the decision-making of six key Chinese leaders via their belief systems. Chinese Strategic Culture will be of interest to students of Chinese politics, foreign policy, strategic theory and international relations in general.

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book China and Strategic Culture written by Andrew Scobell and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the impact of strategic culture on 21st century China. He contends that the People's Republic of China's security policies and its tendency to use military force are influenced not only by elite understandings of China's own strategic tradition, but also by their understandings of the strategic cultures of other states. Gaining a fuller appreciation for how Chinese strategists view the United States and Japan, our key ally in the Asia-Pacific, will better enable us to assess regional and global security issues.

Author : Kenneth D. Johnson
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN 13 : 1584873930
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book China's Strategic Culture written by Kenneth D. Johnson and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 2 decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has made great gains in national development and economic growth and now stands as one of the most important states on the world scene. It is extremely important for U.S. policymakers to have a contextual understanding of what shapes Chinese thought and behavior thus driving Chinese political, economic, and military imperatives. With much of the American public accepting the "China Threat" theory, it is critical that the United States recognize the role of strategic culture in shaping China's domestic and external policies. This paper illustrates the key characteristics of Chinese strategic culture-philosophy, history, and domestic factors that, to a remarkable extent, structure the strategic objectives of China's formal foreign policy and explain how Chinese strategic interests are defined by modern Chinese pragmatic nationalism, its drive for modernization, and the desire for China to have a more prominent role in the Asian and world communities. A concluding analysis of the implications of Chinese strategic culture offer recommendations for U.S. national security policy.

Author : Shu Guang Zhang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501738135
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Deterrence and Strategic Culture written by Shu Guang Zhang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does strategic thinking on the question of deterrence vary between cultures? Should practitioners assume a common understanding of deterrence regardless of national and cultural differences? Shu Guang Zhang takes on these questions by exploring Sino-American confrontations between 1949 and 1958. Zhang draws on recently declassified U.S. documents and previously inaccessible Chinese Communist Party records to demonstrate that the Chinese and the Americans had vastly different assessments of each other's intentions, interests, threats, strengths, and policies during this period.

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781312342095
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book China and Strategic Culture written by Andrew Scobell and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture influences the way strategists in a particular country think about matters of war and peace. Culture is especially influential in a country like China, with an ancient civilization and strategic tradition dating back thousands of years. The author of this monograph, Dr. Andrew Scobell, examines the impact of strategic culture on 21st century China. He contends that the People

Author : Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher : NBR
ISBN 13 : 1939131286
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Strategic Asia 2013-14 written by Ashley J. Tellis and published by NBR. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2013-14 Strategic Asia volume examines the role of nuclear weapons in the grand strategies of key Asian states and assesses the impact of these capabilities—both established and latent—on regional and international stability. In each chapter, a leading expert explores the historical, strategic, and political factors that drive a country's calculations vis-a-vis nuclear weapons and draws implications for American interests.

Author : Niv Horesh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000289273
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping written by Niv Horesh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place – even in the midst of oppression – and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages, and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date, Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach, analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis, this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally, it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history, international business and wider Chinese studies.

Author : Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher : NBR
ISBN 13 : 1939131464
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Strategic Asia 2016-17 written by Ashley J. Tellis and published by NBR. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Asia 2016-17 examines how the region's major powers view international politics and the use of military force. In each chapter, a leading expert analyzes the ideological and historical sources of a country's strategic culture, how strategic culture informs the thinking of the country's policymakers, and how these understandings lead to decisions about the pursuit of strategic objectives and national power.

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428910867
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book China and Strategic Culture written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: