Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies)

✍ Scribed by Christopher P. Twomey

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sino-American nuclear relations are critical given ongoing modernization efforts on both sides and an increasingly complex regional and global nuclear environment.  This volume pairs Chinese and American authors together to offer national perspectives on contemporary nuclear issues, including perceptions of strategic context, national security priorities, doctrines, perceptions of regional threats, and strategies to address these dangers.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Section I: Theoretic Perspectives on Dangers in Sino-American Strategic Relations......Page 12
1 Introduction: Dangers and Prospects in Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Relations......Page 14
2 Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Nuclear Crisis Management and Their Implications for U.S.-Chinese Relations......Page 24
Section II: Comparing National Views on Strategic Context, National Security Priorities, and Doctrines......Page 50
3 The U.S.-China Strategic Relationship......Page 52
4 The Changing Strategic Context of Nuclear Weapons and Implications for the New Nuclear World Order......Page 68
5 Confronting Gathering Threats: U.S. Strategic Policy......Page 84
6 China’s Nuclear Weapon Policy......Page 98
7 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and Beyond: Implications for Sino-American Relations......Page 104
8 Chinese Nuclear Policy and the Future of Minimum Deterrence......Page 122
Section III: Regional Challenges and Threat Reduction Policies......Page 136
9 East Asia’s Nuclear Future......Page 138
10 Sino-Indian Strategic Relations......Page 148
11 The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea......Page 164
12 Chinese Arms Control and Nonproliferation Policy......Page 184
13 Arms Control and Sino-U.S. Strategic Stability......Page 196
14 Comparing Perspectives: Dangers to Avoid, Prospects to Develop......Page 212
List of Contributors......Page 222
B......Page 226
F......Page 227
K......Page 228
N......Page 229
R......Page 230
S......Page 231
Z......Page 232