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Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Covers foreign policy during the period 1945 to 1992.
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Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Tucker traces the thorny…
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Tucker has assembled a range of interviews with key figures in the history of Sino-American diplomacy. Among the many topics addressed are the Korean War, Nixon’s historic trip to China…
Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. This…
Features essays by scholars and practitioners in the arena of US-Taiwan-Chinese relations. This book clarifies historical developments, examines myths about past and present policies, and assesses issues facing policymakers. It…
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the Cold War–the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower administration’s…
Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the…
This is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. Using the most recently declassified documents, this volume explains in…
