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Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell analyze China's security concerns on four fronts: at home, with its immediate neighbors, in surrounding regional systems, and in the world beyond Asia. By illuminating the issues driving Chinese policy, they offer a new perspective on the country's rise and a strategy for balancing Chinese and American interests in Asia. The authors probe recent troubles in Tibet and Xinjiang, exploring their links to forces beyond China's borders. They also consider the tactics deployed by mainland China and Taiwan, as the latter seeks to maintain autonomy in the face of Chinese advances toward unification, and they evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of China's three main power resources--economic power, military power, and soft power.
Brief description: Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of China's New Rulers: The Secret Files (New York Review of Books, 2002) with Bruce Gilley; the co-editor of Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2003) with Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, and Kavita Philip; and the co-editor of How East Asians View Democracy (CUP 2010) with Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, and Doh Chull Shin.
Review Quotes: 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