Deterrence and Strategic Culture: Chinese-American Confrontations, 1949-1958

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. Zha...

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Main Author: Zhang, Shu Guang (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Links:https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738135
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781501738135
DOI:10.7591/9781501738135