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Deterrence and Strategic Culture : Chinese-American Confrontations, 1949-1958 /
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. Zha...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781501738135 9783110536171 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |