Acknowledgments

Introduction: Structure, power and politics in Chinese security policy

PART I

Great power politics and East Asian security

1. China learns to compromise: Change in U.S.- China relations, 1982-1984 (1991)

2. The geography of the peace: Great power stability in twenty-first century East Asia (1999)

3. The U.S.- China peace: Great power politics, spheres of influence, and the peace of

East Asia (2003)

4 Balance of power politics and the rise of China: Accommodation and balancing in East Asia

(2006)

PART II

Deterrence and coercive diplomacy in Chinese security policy

5. China and the Cambodian peace process: The value of coercive diplomacy (1991)

6. The 1995-96 Ta8iwan Strait confrontation: Coercion, credibility, and the use of force (2000)

7. Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, escalation dominance, and U.S. –China relations (2002)

8. International bargaining and domestic politics: U.S. –China relations since 1972 (1986)

9. From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite instability and China’s U.S. policy (1989)

10. The diplomacy of Tiananmen: Two-level bargaining and great power cooperation (2001)

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