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Beyond Power Transitions The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations

Kang, David Ma, Xinru
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

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9780231205368
Publisert
2024-10-08
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Columbia University Press
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216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Kang, David
Ma, Xinru

Biographical note

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).

Beyond Power Transitions The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations

Kang, David Ma, Xinru
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Kang, David Ma, Xinru
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If one idea animates thinking about China’s rise, it is the power transition approach: that China will inevitably come into conflict with political incumbents. Ma and Kang start from very different premises: that internal politics and ideational factors—shared conjectures—drive politics. They make the argument by retrieving Asia’s history, considering the region over the longue duree. Their book provides a badly needed service: a different lens—although not necessarily a more hopeful one—on the current conjuncture.

- Stephan Haggard, coauthor of <i>Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World</i>,

Drawing on a different set of historical cases than mainstream IR theory, Ma and Kang show that the politics of power transitions can be fraught with different sets of frictions than commitment problems due to shifting power—requiring different theoretical models and, often, different solutions.

- Scott Wolford, author of <i>The Politics of Military Coalitions</i>,

A valuable contribution to the discourse on East Asian international relations, offering a more nuanced and potentially more constructive vision of the future.

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The historical reappraisals in this book remain engrossing, and provide a keyhole of insight into the traditions of an ancient realm.

Open Letters Review

Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations?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. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries’ relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.
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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.
List of Figures and TablesPrefacePart I. Introduction1. What Are the Lessons of History?2. The Common Conjecture in War and Peace: Culture, Not StructurePart II. History3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500–1900: Internal Challenges, Not External Threat4. The Mongol Conquest of the Thirteenth Century and the Song–Yuan Transition5. The Small Attack the Large: The Imjin War, 1592–15986. Internal Collapse: The Ming–Qing Transition, 1600–16807. How Korea Remained Independent Until 1910: The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large StatesPart III. Contemporary U.S.–China Relations8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First CenturyPart IV. Conclusion9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East AsiaAppendix: Journal Rankings and Journal Articles on Power TransitionNotesBibliographyIndex
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If one idea animates thinking about China’s rise, it is the power transition approach: that China will inevitably come into conflict with political incumbents. Ma and Kang start from very different premises: that internal politics and ideational factors—shared conjectures—drive politics. They make the argument by retrieving Asia’s history, considering the region over the longue duree. Their book provides a badly needed service: a different lens—although not necessarily a more hopeful one—on the current conjuncture.
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If one idea animates thinking about China’s rise, it is the power transition approach: that China will inevitably come into conflict with political incumbents. Ma and Kang start from very different premises: that internal politics and ideational factors—shared conjectures—drive politics. They make the argument by retrieving Asia’s history, considering the region over the longue duree. Their book provides a badly needed service: a different lens—although not necessarily a more hopeful one—on the current conjuncture.

- Stephan Haggard, coauthor of <i>Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World</i>,

Drawing on a different set of historical cases than mainstream IR theory, Ma and Kang show that the politics of power transitions can be fraught with different sets of frictions than commitment problems due to shifting power—requiring different theoretical models and, often, different solutions.

- Scott Wolford, author of <i>The Politics of Military Coalitions</i>,

A valuable contribution to the discourse on East Asian international relations, offering a more nuanced and potentially more constructive vision of the future.

Withered Papyrus

Se alle

The historical reappraisals in this book remain engrossing, and provide a keyhole of insight into the traditions of an ancient realm.

Open Letters Review

Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations?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. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries’ relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.
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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.
List of Figures and TablesPrefacePart I. Introduction1. What Are the Lessons of History?2. The Common Conjecture in War and Peace: Culture, Not StructurePart II. History3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500–1900: Internal Challenges, Not External Threat4. The Mongol Conquest of the Thirteenth Century and the Song–Yuan Transition5. The Small Attack the Large: The Imjin War, 1592–15986. Internal Collapse: The Ming–Qing Transition, 1600–16807. How Korea Remained Independent Until 1910: The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large StatesPart III. Contemporary U.S.–China Relations8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First CenturyPart IV. Conclusion9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East AsiaAppendix: Journal Rankings and Journal Articles on Power TransitionNotesBibliographyIndex
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If one idea animates thinking about China’s rise, it is the power transition approach: that China will inevitably come into conflict with political incumbents. Ma and Kang start from very different premises: that internal politics and ideational factors—shared conjectures—drive politics. They make the argument by retrieving Asia’s history, considering the region over the longue duree. Their book provides a badly needed service: a different lens—although not necessarily a more hopeful one—on the current conjuncture.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780231205368
Publisert
2024-10-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Kang, David
Ma, Xinru

Biographical note

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).

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