Deterrence and Strategic Culture : : Chinese-American Confrontations, 1949–1958 / / Shu Guang Zhang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Zhang, Shu Guang,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Does strategic thinking on the question of deterrence vary between cultures? Should practitioners assume a common understanding of deterrence regardless of national and cultural differences? Shu Guang Zhang takes on these questions by exploring Sino-American confrontations between 1949 and 1958. Zhang draws on recently declassified U.S. documents and previously inaccessible Chinese Communist Party records to demonstrate that the Chinese and the Americans had vastly different assessments of each other's intentions, interests, threats, strengths, and policies during this period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Mutual Deterrence and Standard Models -- 2. The Establishment of the Battleground, 1948-1950 -- 3. The Origins of the Taiwan Question, September 1949- August 1950 -- 4. Military Conflict in Korea, July 1950-January 1951 -- 5. The End of the Korean War, 1952-1953 -- 6. Confrontation in Indochina, 1953-1954 -- 7. The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-1955 -- 8. The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958 -- 9. Misperception and Mutual Deterrence -- Bibliography -- Index