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Building For Regional And Global Reach
Praeger Security International General I
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
344 pages ISBN: 0275994864 EAN: 9780275994860 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
China's rise to global economic and strategic eminence, with
the potential for achieving pre-eminence in the
greater-Asian region, is one of the defining characteristics
of the post-Cold War period. For students contemplating a
broad range of business, social science, journalist or
military science curricula, it is critical to possess a
basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and
trajectory of a Rising China. This work is intended to be
attractive to a range of courses that require a volume that
can provide background and outline current and future issues
concerning China's rise in strategic-military influence. The
next decade may witness China's assertion of military or
strategic pressure on Japan, the Korean Peninsula, India,
the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Central Asia, or
even on behalf of future allies in Africa and Latin America. While conflict is not a foregone conclusion, as indicated by
China's increasing participation in many benign
international organizations, it is a fact that China's
leadership will pursue its interests as it sees them, which
may not always coincide with those of the United States, its
friends, and allies. Until now, no single volume that
provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and concise
description of China's evolving geo-strategy or of how China
is transforming its military to carry out this strategy
existed. Fisher examines how China's People's Liberation
Army (PLA) remains critical to the existence of the Chinese
Communist government and looks at China's political and
military actions designed to protect its expanded strategic
interests in both the Asia-Pacific and Central to Near-Asian
regions. His work also exmaines how the United States and
other governments simultaneously seek greater "engagement"
with China on strategic concerns, while also "hedging"
against its rising power. Although China faces both internal
and external constraints on its "rise" to global eminence,
it cannot be denied that China's government is pursuing a
far-reaching strategic agenda.
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