Useful adversaries: grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958
This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Com...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman's policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao's initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman's limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao's self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders' desire to avoid actual warfare |
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| spelling | Christensen, Thomas J. 1962- Verfasser (DE-588)1013473396 aut Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 Thomas J. Christensen Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020] © 1997 1 online resource 1 halftone 16 line illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Princeton Studies in International History and Politics 179 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020) This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman's policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao's initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman's limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao's self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders' desire to avoid actual warfare In English Geschichte 1947-1958 gnd rswk-swf Chinese Civil War Clubb, O. Edmund Europe, Eastern France Ho Chi Minh Huang Hua Japan Johnson, Louis KMT (Kuomintang) Kennan, George F. Liu Xiao Manchuria Mao Zedong Navy (U.S.) Peng Dehuai Republican Party Soviet Union Sputnik Titoism United Nations alliances;anticommunism;Asialationism bipolarity conflict manipulation deterrence factional politics grand strategy ideological crusading isolationism (U.S.) psychological explanations realism POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General bisacsh Außenpolitik (DE-588)4003846-4 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Außenpolitik (DE-588)4003846-4 s China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Geschichte 1947-1958 z 1\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691213323 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Christensen, Thomas J. 1962- Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 Chinese Civil War Clubb, O. Edmund Europe, Eastern France Ho Chi Minh Huang Hua Japan Johnson, Louis KMT (Kuomintang) Kennan, George F. Liu Xiao Manchuria Mao Zedong Navy (U.S.) Peng Dehuai Republican Party Soviet Union Sputnik Titoism United Nations alliances;anticommunism;Asialationism bipolarity conflict manipulation deterrence factional politics grand strategy ideological crusading isolationism (U.S.) psychological explanations realism POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General bisacsh Außenpolitik (DE-588)4003846-4 gnd |
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| title | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 |
| title_auth | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 |
| title_exact_search | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 |
| title_full | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 Thomas J. Christensen |
| title_fullStr | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 Thomas J. Christensen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Useful adversaries grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 Thomas J. Christensen |
| title_short | Useful adversaries |
| title_sort | useful adversaries grand strategy domestic mobilization and sino american conflict 1947 1958 |
| title_sub | grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 |
| topic | Chinese Civil War Clubb, O. Edmund Europe, Eastern France Ho Chi Minh Huang Hua Japan Johnson, Louis KMT (Kuomintang) Kennan, George F. Liu Xiao Manchuria Mao Zedong Navy (U.S.) Peng Dehuai Republican Party Soviet Union Sputnik Titoism United Nations alliances;anticommunism;Asialationism bipolarity conflict manipulation deterrence factional politics grand strategy ideological crusading isolationism (U.S.) psychological explanations realism POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General bisacsh Außenpolitik (DE-588)4003846-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | Chinese Civil War Clubb, O. Edmund Europe, Eastern France Ho Chi Minh Huang Hua Japan Johnson, Louis KMT (Kuomintang) Kennan, George F. Liu Xiao Manchuria Mao Zedong Navy (U.S.) Peng Dehuai Republican Party Soviet Union Sputnik Titoism United Nations alliances;anticommunism;Asialationism bipolarity conflict manipulation deterrence factional politics grand strategy ideological crusading isolationism (U.S.) psychological explanations realism POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General Außenpolitik China USA |
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