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Strait talk : United States-Taiwan relations and the crisis with China / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: xii, 390 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674060524 (pbk.) :
  • 0674060520 (pbk.) :
  • 9780674031876 (alk. paper)
  • 0674031873 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E183.8.T3 T829 2009
Partial contents:
Landscape and memory -- In the context of the Cold War -- The origins of strategic ambiguity -- Détente -- Taiwan expendable? -- Survival -- Ford's tribulations -- Collapse and reprieve -- Moral imperatives, military challenges -- Derecognition -- Final act -- The Taiwan Relations Act -- Recognizing your friends and enemies -- The Reagan difference -- American assurances -- The end of the Cold War -- Shifting ground -- Search for a new world order -- Change and continuity -- Taiwan Strait crisis -- Setting the record straight -- War against terrorism -- The influence of democracy -- The uses of adversity.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-373) and index.

Landscape and memory -- In the context of the Cold War -- The origins of strategic ambiguity -- Détente -- Taiwan expendable? -- Survival -- Ford's tribulations -- Collapse and reprieve -- Moral imperatives, military challenges -- Derecognition -- Final act -- The Taiwan Relations Act -- Recognizing your friends and enemies -- The Reagan difference -- American assurances -- The end of the Cold War -- Shifting ground -- Search for a new world order -- Change and continuity -- Taiwan Strait crisis -- Setting the record straight -- War against terrorism -- The influence of democracy -- The uses of adversity.

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