Chinas Search for Security

The rise of China is the most important international trend of our time, and this superb book is the best guide to it that I've seen. Broad, deep, and wise, it is simply an indispensable introduction to all aspects of China's ongoing encounter with the world at large. Any politician or pundit who wants to say anything at all about this subject should have to pass a test on Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell's tour de force before doing so. -- Gideon Rose, editor, Foreign Affairs For the scholar, student, and general reader, China's Search for Security is a source of value. Nathan and Scobell successfully view the world through Chinese eyes and provide just the right mix of interpretation and narrative. Nuggets of insight glitter on every page. -- Richard Bush, Brookings Institution Nathan and Scobell are extremely well qualified to assess China's foreign policy. As their book makes clear, understanding that policy is essential to the consideration of virtually every issue of international concern. I strongly recommend China's Search for Security to all those with an interest in global public policy. -- Aryeh Neier, president emeritus, Open Society Foundations Even though China's foreign policy has become more practical and confident, China's rise has generated regional and international anxiety. Nathan and Scobell probe the mix of forces reshaping Chinese strategic deliberations, providing the deepest insight yet into how Chinese decision-makers perceive their geostrategic predicaments and security challenges. -- Zhe Sun, Center for U.S.-China Relations, Tsinghua University [Nathan & Scobell] skillfully and fairly explore this complex and contradictory American-Chinese competition-without themselves being complex or contradictory. -- Jonathan Mirsky New York Review of Books China's Search for Security is a good introductory text for students and policymakers without expertise in the area. It highlights and summarizes most of the critical issues associated with Chinese security policy -- Robert Farley H-Diplo Comprehensive, persuasive, and empathetic, China's Search for Security offers a fresh look. -- Kendrick Kuo e-International Relations This is a superb book, richly detailed, and will be required reading for anyone wishing to understand how China views its own situation. -- David C. Kang Journal of Asian Studies A valuable survey of the foreign policy and national security behavior of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the many factors that bear upon it. -- Christopher A. Ford China Review International Nathan and Scobell are senior scholars who know their subject matter well... Their analysis is thorough and generally judicious. China's Search for Security is useful in its systematic deflation of common fears about the rise of China. -- Denny Roy Contemporary Southeast Asia

Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His books include Chinese Democracy; The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress; The Tiananmen Papers; China's New Rulers: The Secret Files; and How East Asians View Democracy. Andrew Scobell is senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is the author of China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March and the editor of more than a dozen books on the Chinese military and Asian security.

Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Interest and Identity in Chinese Foreign Policy 1. What Drives Chinese Foreign Policy? 2. Who Runs Chinese Foreign Policy? Part II. Security Challenges and Strategies 3. Life on the Hinge: China's Russia Policy During the Cold War and After 4. Deciphering the U.S. Threat 5. The Northeast Asia Regional System: Japan and the Two Koreas 6. China's Other Neighbors: The Asia-Pacific 7. China in the Fourth Ring Part III. Holding Together: Territorial Integrity and Foreign Policy 8. Problems of Stateness: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan 9. Taiwan's Democratic Transition and China's Response Part IV. Instruments of Power 10. Dilemmas of Opening: Power and Vulnerability in the Global Economy 11. Military Modernization: From People's War to Power Projection 12. Soft Power and Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Policy Part V. Conclusion 13. Threat or Equilibrium? Notes Acknowledgments Index