Kang / Ma Beyond Power Transitions

The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55597-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics

Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kang, David

Ma, Xinru

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. What Are the Lessons of History?
2. The Common Conjecture in War and Peace: Culture, Not Structure
Part II. History
3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500–1900: Internal Challenges, Not External Threat
4. The Mongol Conquest of the Thirteenth Century and the Song–Yuan Transition
5. The Small Attack the Large: The Imjin War, 1592–1598
6. Internal Collapse: The Ming–Qing Transition, 1600–1680
7. How Korea Remained Independent Until 1910: The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large States
Part III. Contemporary U.S.–China Relations
8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First Century
Part IV. Conclusion
9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East Asia
Appendix: Journal Rankings and Journal Articles on Power Transition
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Xinru Ma is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Her scholarship focuses on nationalism, great power politics, and East Asian security.

David C. Kang is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Korean Studies Institute. His Columbia University Press books include East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (2010) and, with Victor D. Cha, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (revised and updated edition, 2018).