Summary This monograph reviews recent books on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to help the generalist or student become familiar with existing evaluations and…
Country or Region: China
Summary China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly,…
Summary China’s Futures cuts through the sometimes confounding and unfounded speculation of international pundits and commentators to provide readers with an important yet overlooked set…
Summary A decade after the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke…
Summary The Chinese Military Library volume The PLA Air Force tells the complete history of China’s air force. In addition, the book provides detailed information…
Summary China was the largest and one of most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into…
Summary China’s nuclear arsenal has long been an enigma. The arsenal has historically been small, based almost exclusively on land-based ballistic missiles, maintained at a…
Summary In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country…
Summary Are there recurring historical dynamics and patterns that can help us understand today’s power transitions and struggles over international order? What can we learn…
Summary Since World War II, the United States has played a crucial role in shaping Northeast Asian politics and economics. However, as this authoritative book…
Summary The ever-accelerating transformation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the years since the era of Mao Zedong, particularly in its economic and…
Summary The Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, part of National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies, is pleased to announce the…
Summary This is the definitive reference source examining all aspects of one of the most powerful air forces in the world, the Chinese. Although China…
Abstract China sees American sea power in East Asian waters as threatening to itself, its regional aspirations, and possibly its global access. So it is…
Abstract The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models,…
