Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China

Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power.

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics, coauthor of The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, and coeditor of China's Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics (also from Cornell), among many other books. Oystein Tunsjo is Professor of International Politics at the Norwegian Defence University College and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He is the author of Security and Profit in China's Energy Security Policy: Hedging against Risk and US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle.

Fills some major gaps in strategy studies, and can serve either as a reference for policy makers and Asian specialists, or as a supplementary text for teachers and college students.

Enhances our understanding of power and politics in East Asia, and will help policymakers, researchers, and students of international relations to follow the power transition caused by the rise of China.

Allen R. Carlson, Cornell University, author of Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era:

The contributors to this impressive book grapple with looming questions in the Asian region, including the most important: Are we headed into a period of increased conflict and confrontation? Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China takes note of escalating tensions in Asia over the last several years as Beijing appears to have assumed a more assertive stance over a variety of territorial issues and with regards to the United States.