Cultural realism : strategic culture and grand strategy in Chinese history /

Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of &...

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Main Author: Johnston, Alastair I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Series:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Strategic Culture: A Critique
  • Ch. 2. Some Questions of Methodology
  • Ch. 3. Chinese Strategic Culture and the Parabellum Paradigm
  • Ch. 4. Chinese Strategic Culture and Grand Strategic Preferences
  • Ch. 5. A Return to Theory
  • Ch. 6. The Parabellum Paradigm and the Ming Security Problematique
  • Ch. 7. Chinese Strategic Culture and Ming Grand Strategic Choice
  • Ch. 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Coding Procedures
  • Appendix B: Terms Used to Describe Legitimate Actions Directed at an Adversary
  • Appendix B: Terms Used to Describe Outcomes of Actions against an Adversary
  • Appendix C: Map of Northern Border Areas in the Ming Period.