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Strait Talk

United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Strait Talk

United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Only a Taiwan Straits conflict could plunge Americans into war with a nuclear-armed great power. In a timely and deeply informed book, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker traces the thorny relationship between the United States and Taiwan as both watch ChinaÕs power grow. Although TaiwanÐU.S. security has been intertwined since the 1950s, neither Taipei nor Washington ever fully embraced the other. Differences in priorities and perspectives repeatedly raised questions about the wisdom of the alignment. Tucker discusses the nature of U.S. commitments to Taiwan; the intricacies of policy decisions; the intentions of critical actors; the impact of TaiwanÕs democratization; the role of lobbying; and the accelerating difficulty of balancing Taiwan against China. In particular, she examines the destructive mistrust that undermines U.S. cooperation with Taiwan, stymieing efforts to resolve cross-Strait tensions. Strait Talk offers valuable historical context for understanding U.S.ÐTaiwan ties and is essential reading for anyone interested in international relations and security issues today.

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Harvard University Press

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0674060520

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9780674060524

Dangerous Strait

The U.S.--Taiwan--China Crisis

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Dangerous Strait

The U.S.--Taiwan--China Crisis

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Dangerous Strait provides fresh perspectives on the complex political, economic, and strategic issues of the Taiwan Strait. Essays examine a variety of topics, which include the movement for independence and its place in Taiwanese domestic politics, the underlying weaknesses of democracy in Taiwan, and the significance of China and Taiwan's economic interdependence. In the area of security, contributors provide incisive critiques of Taiwan's incomplete military modernization, the strains in U.S.-Taiwan relations and their differing interpretations of China's intentions, and the misguided inclination to abandon Washington's traditional policy of strategic ambiguity.

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Columbia University Press

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0231135645

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9780231135641

The China Threat

Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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The China Threat

Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold warÑthe moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower AdministrationÕs policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious, cutting edge research, this volume convincingly portrays EisenhowerÕs private belief that close relations between the United States and the PeopleÕs Republic of China were inevitable and that careful consideration of the PRC should constitute a critical part of American diplomacy. Tucker provocatively argues that the Eisenhower AdministrationÕs hostile rhetoric and tough actions toward China obscure the presidentÕs actual views. Behind the scenes, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, pursued a more nuanced approach, one better suited to ChinaÕs specific challenges and the stabilization of the global community. Tucker deftly explores the contradictions between Eisenhower and his advisorsÕ public and private positions. Her most powerful chapter centers on EisenhowerÕs recognition that rigid trade prohibitions would undermine the global postwar economic recovery and push China into a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Tucker finds EisenhowerÕs strategic thinking on Europe and his fear of toxic, anticommunist domestic politics constrained his leadership, making a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward China difficult if not impossible. Consequently, the president was unable to engage congress and the public effectively on China, ultimately failing to realize his own high standards as a leader.

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Columbia University Press

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0231159250

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9780231159258

Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government. The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to make a rash decision. Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the Nationalist collapse to a tree falling in the forest--the United States would have to wait for the dust settled before it could see ahead clearly. Patterns in the Dust is a fresh look at a period overwhelmed by later events. Drawing on many previously unavailable sources, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker assesses the factors that influenced Washington policymakers during the critical few months in which the thirty-year estrangement between the two countries began. She examines the government's assessment of the chances for accommodation with the Chinese Communists, the careful efforts to ascertain American public opinion, and the effects of the Korean War which brought reasoned dialogue to an abrupt end. Patterns in the Dust highlights the flexibility that Dean Acheson retained in American policy toward China. Acheson emerges as a highly pragmatic man determined to preserve contacts with China simply because, as events have proved, that was the realistic way to conduct international relations.

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Columbia University Press

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0231053622

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Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

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The China Threat

Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

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Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

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Dangerous Strait

The U.S.--Taiwan--China Crisis

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The U.S.--Taiwan--China Crisis

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Strait Talk

United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

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Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992

Uncertain Friendships

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992

Uncertain Friendships

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Tucker also investigates the impact of immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong in the U.S., ranging from achievements in art and scholarship to gang violence tied to drugs, illegal immigration and politics.

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0805779299

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Jimmy Carter in Africa

Race and the Cold War

By: Nancy Mitchell

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Jimmy Carter in Africa

Race and the Cold War

By: Nancy Mitchell

“By a wide margin the best book about [Carter’s] presidency that’s yet appeared.” —Christian Science Monitor In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to more contentious domestic issues of race relations and rising unemployment. There was one continent, however, where the Cold War was on the point of flaring hot: Africa. Jimmy Carter in Africa opens just after Henry Kissinger’s failed 1975 plot in Angola, as Carter launches his presidential campaign. The Civil Rights Act was only a decade old, and issues of racial justice remained contentious. Racism at home undermined Americans’ efforts to “win hearts and minds” abroad, and provided potent propaganda to the Kremlin. As President Carter confronted Africa, the essence of American foreign policy—stopping Soviet expansion—slammed up against the most explosive and raw aspect of American domestic politics—racism. Drawing on candid interviews with Carter, as well as key U.S. and foreign diplomats, and on a dazzling array of international archival sources, Nancy Mitchell offers a timely reevaluation of the Carter administration and of the man himself. In the face of two major tests, in Rhodesia and the Horn of Africa, Carter grappled with questions of Cold War competition, domestic politics, personal loyalty, and decision-making style. Mitchell reveals an administration not beset by weakness and indecision, as is too commonly assumed, but rather constrained by Cold War dynamics and by the president’s own temperament as he wrestled with a divided public and his own human failings. Jimmy Carter in Africa presents a stark portrait of how deeply Cold War politics and racial justice were intertwined. “An impressive historical work in every respect.” —Choice “Her writing flows, and she places Carter's Africa policy within the larger context of US foreign policy and politics.” —International Journal

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Stanford University Press

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0804799180

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9780804799188

Book's by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Strait Talk

Strait Talk

Dangerous Strait

Dangerous Strait

The China Threat

The China Threat

Patterns in the Dust

Patterns in the Dust

Patterns in the Dust

Patterns in the Dust

The China Threat

The China Threat

Dangerous Strait

Dangerous Strait

Strait Talk

Strait Talk

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992

Jimmy Carter in Africa

Jimmy Carter in Africa

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