Chapter Ten. Strategic Competence. The Historical Record

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter One. The Fallacy of Unresisted Aggrandizement 1
5. Chapter Two. Premature Assertiveness 8
6. Chapter Three. Great- State Autism Defined 13
7. Chapter Four. Historical Residues in Chinese Conduct 24
8. Chapter Five. The Coming Geo- Economic Resistance to the Rise of China 38
9. Chapter Six. China’s Aggrandizement and Global Reactions 48
10. Chapter Seven. The Inevitable Analogy 56
11. Chapter Eight. Could China Adopt a Successful Grand Strategy? 68
12. Chapter Nine. The Strategic Unwisdom of the Ancients 72
13. Chapter Ten. Strategic Competence. The Historical Record 89
14. Chapter Eleven. The Inevitability of Mounting Resistance 95
15. Chapter Twelve. Why Current Policies Will Persist 100
16. Chapter Thirteen. Australia Weaving a Coalition 107
17. Chapter Fourteen. Japan Disengaging from Disengagement 125
18. Chapter Fifteen. Defiant Vietnam. The Newest American Ally? 145
19. Chapter Sixteen. South Korea. A Model Tianxia Subordinate? 169
20. Chapter Seventeen. Mongolia. Northern Outpost of the Coalition? 180
21. Chapter Eighteen. Indonesia. From Ostracism to Coalition 186
22. Chapter Nineteen. The Philippines. How to Make Enemies 197
23. Chapter Twenty. Norway Norway? Norway! 209
24. Chapter Twenty - one. The Three China Policies of the United States 213
25. Chapter Twenty - two. Conclusions and Predictions 248
26. Appendix. The Rise and Fall of “Peaceful Rise” 273
27. Notes 277
28. Glossary 301
29. Index 307