Readings

Background reading on the current state of the field (not required):

Shambaugh, David. "Studies of China's Foreign and Security Policies in the United States." Chapter 10 in China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States. Edited by Robert Ash, David Shambaugh, and Seiichiro Takagi. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415413978. [Preview with Google Books]

Christensen, Thomas J., Alastair Iain Johnston, and Robert S. Ross. "Conclusions and Future Directions." Chapter 13 in New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross. Stanford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780804753630. [Preview with Google Books]

Carlson, Allen, Mary E. Gallagher, et al, eds. Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780521155762. [Preview with Google Books]

Lüthi, Lorenz M. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691135908. [Preview with Google Books]

Van Ness, Peter. "Introduction." In Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Peking's View of the World." Chapter 1 in Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Endorsement of Revolutions." Chapter 4 in Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Relations with Revolutionary Moments." Chapter 5 in Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Selection of Targets for Revolution." Chapter 6 in Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "The Cultural Revolution." Chapter 8 in Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking’s Support for Wars of National Liberation. University of California Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780520020559. [Preview with Google Books]

Christensen, Thomas J. "Worse Than a Monolith: Disorganization and Rivalry within Asian Communist Alliances and U.S. Containment Challenges, 1949–69." Asian Security 1, no. 1 (2005): 80–127.

Lewis, John Wilson, and Xue Litai. "Strategic Weapons and Chinese Power: The Formative Years." China Quarterly 112 (1987): 541–54.

Goldstein, Avery. "Understanding Nuclear Proliferation: Theoretical Explanation and China's National Experience." Security Studies 2, no. 3–4 (1993): 213–55.

Johnston, Alastair Iain. "China's New 'Old Thinking': The Concept of Limited Deterrence." International Security 20, no. 3 (1995–1996): 5–42.

———. "Learning Versus Adaptation: Explaining Change in Chinese Arms Control Policy in the 1980s and 1990s." China Journal 35 (1996): 27–61.

Yunzhu, Yao. "Chinese Nuclear Policy and the Future of Minimum Deterrence." Chapter 8 in Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues. Edited by Christopher P. Twomey. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN: 9780230606609. [Preview with Google Books]

Fravel, M. Taylor, and Evan S. Medeiros. "China's Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure." International Security 35, no. 2 (2010): 48–87.

Christensen, Thomas J. "The Meaning of the Nuclear Evolution: China's Strategic Modernization and US-China Security Relations." Journal of Strategic Studies 35, no. 4 (2012): 447–87.

Riqiang, Wu. "Certainty of Uncertainty: Nuclear Strategy with Chinese Characteristics." Journal of Strategic Studies 36, no. 4 (2013): 579–614.

Oksenberg, Michel. "China's Confident Nationalism." Foreign Affairs 65, no. 3 (1986): 501–23.

Whiting, Allen S. "Assertive Nationalism in Chinese Foreign Policy." Asian Survey 23, no. 8 (1983): 913–33.

He, Yinan. "Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950–2006." History & Memory 19, no. 2 (2007): 43–74.

Gries, Peter Hays. "Tears of Rage: Chinese Nationalist Reactions to the Belgrade Embassy Bombing." (PDF - 3.5MB) China Journal 46 (2001): 25–43.

Zhao, Dingxin. "Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Student-Government Conflicts during the 1999 Beijing Student Protests after the Belgrade Embassy Bombing." Asian Perspective 27, no. 1 (2003): 5–34.

Zhao, Suisheng. "China's Pragmatic Nationalism: Is It Manageable?" Washington Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2005–06): 131–144.

Downs, Erica Strecker, and Phillip C. Saunders. "Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyu Islands." International Security 23, no. 3 (1998–1999): 114–146.

Ross, Robert S. "China's Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response." (PDF) International Security 34, no. 2 (2009): 46–81.

Weiss, Jessica Chen. "Authoritarian Signaling, Mass Audiences, and Nationalist Protest in China." International Organization 67, no. 1 (2013): 1–35.

Johnston, Alastair Iain. Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980–2000. Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780691134536. [Preview with Google Books]

Wang, Hongying. "Multilateralism in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Limits of Socialization." Asian Survey 40, no. 3 (2000): 475–91.

Carlson, Allen. "More Than Just Saying No: China's Evolving Approach to Sovereignty and Intervention Since Tiananmen." Chapter 8 in New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston, and Robert S. Ross. Stanford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780804753630. [Preview with Google Books]

Moore, Thomas G. "Racing to integrate, or cooperating to compete?: Liberal and realist interpretations of China's new multilateralism." Chapter 3 in China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security. Edited by Guoguang Wu, and Helen Landsdowne. Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415666466. [Preview with Google Books]

Richardson, Courtney. "A Responsible Power? China and the UN Peacekeeping Regime." International Peacekeeping 18, no. 3 (2011): 286–97.

Wuthnow, Joel , Xin Li, and Lingling Qi. "Diverse Multilateralism: Four Strategies in China's Multilateral Diplomacy." Journal of Chinese Political Science 17, no. 3 (2012): 269–90.

Schweller, Randall. "Managing the Rise of Great Powers: History and Theory." Chapter 1 in Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross. Routledge, 1999. ISBN: 9780415208413. [Preview with Google Books]

Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Is China a Status Quo Power?" International Security 27, no. 4 (2003): 5–56.

Friedberg, Aaron. "The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?" International Security 30, no. 2 (2005): 7–45.

Mearsheimer, John J. "China's Unpeaceful Rise." (PDF) Current History 105, no. 690 (2006): 160–2.

Fravel, M. Taylor. "International Relations Theory and China's Rise: Assessing China's Potential for Territorial Expansion." International Studies Review 12, no. 4 (2010): 505–32.

Beckley, Michael. "China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure." (PDF) International Security 36, no. 3 (2011/12): 41–78.

Johnston, Alastair Iain. "How New and Assertive Is China's New Assertiveness?" International Security 37, no. 4 (2013): 7–48.

Goldstein, Avery. "First Things First: The Pressing Danger of Crisis Instability in U.S.-China Relations." International Security 37, no. 4 (2013): 49–89.