Us Foreign Policy and China - by Aiden Warren & Adam Bartley (Paperback)

About the Book

This book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the international stage.

Book Synopsis

Examining the 21st century presidencies of the United States and their comparative policies, strategies, attitudes and behaviours towards the People's Republic of China.
Comprehensively examines the three 21st Century U.S. presidential administrations and their foreign policies toward ChinaProvides a detailed analysis of Trump's first term in office Focuses on the key security challenges relating to, among others, Chinese military modernization, South and East China Seas, the Indo-Pacific region, the Belt and Road Initiative, nuclear modernizationThis book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the international stage. During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama the traditional safeguards and stabilizers to strategic competition were broadly adhered to, albeit in some cases not without great difficulty. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, however, these bulwarks have alarmingly diminished. Abrupt departures in engagement platforms and asserting regional defensive postures have become the new norms.
With brevity and nuance, this book provides much needed connective tissue in examining these departures and their antecedents across the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. It reveals Washington and Beijing are moving towards a new period where, unlike previous ones, this one will be characterised by an amplified preponderance of competition, and the enhanced probability of conflict and confrontation.

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Examining the 21st century presidencies of the United States and their comparative policies, strategies, attitudes and behaviours towards the People's Republic of China. This book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the international stage. During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama the traditional safeguards and stabilizers to strategic competition were broadly adhered to, albeit in some cases not without great difficulty. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, however, these bulwarks have alarmingly diminished. Abrupt departures in engagement platforms and asserting regional defensive postures have become the new norms. With brevity and nuance, this book provides much needed connective tissue in examining these departures and their antecedents across the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. It reveals Washington and Beijing are moving towards a new period where, unlike previous ones, this one will be characterised by an amplified preponderance of competition, and the enhanced probability of conflict and confrontation. Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne. Adam Bartley is a lecturer and China foreign relations specialist at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne.

Review Quotes

In 2020, relations between the United States and China entered a new stage of heightened competition and confrontation. With an emphasis on security issues, this comprehensive study expertly demonstrates how successive US presidential administrations wrestled with the challenges posed by China's rise. Anyone interested in the past and future of US-China relations should read this book.--M. Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professors Aiden Warren and Adam Bartley have done an important service to readers endeavoring to understand the remarkable turn in U.S. policy toward China from engagement to acute rivalry in the 21st century. This well organized and clearly written volume plumbs available information to explain persuasively the evolution of the national security approaches to China of the Bush and Obama administrations, and thereby, highlight the important changes carried out by the Trump government.--Robert Sutter, George Washington University

This book is for any analyst trying to make sense of contemporary U.S. China policy and strategy. It provides a timely, clear-eyed, thorough, and insightful analysis of U.S.-China foreign policy spanning two decades by detailing the evolution of U.S. China policy and emerging Great Power competition across three presidential administrations.--Kathleen A. Walsh, the U.S. Naval War College [these are personal views and not those of the U.S. Government, Navy or Naval War College]

This book provides a critical analysis of the key security issues faced by Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump in their foreign policy towards China. It becomes clear how a new phase of rivalry and confrontation in the relationship between Beijing and Washington developed in the first two decades of the 21st century, the consequences of which can be seen today in China's behavior in the Ukraine war.--Sehepunkte "Sabine Dabringhaus"

About the Author

Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security (Rowman Littlefield) and The Obama Administration's Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague (Routledge). Dr Warren is also co-editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press) and Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP), George Washington University, and Asia-Pacific Fellow at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation, Washington DC.

Adam Bartley is a lecturer and China foreign relations specialist at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia where he received his Ph.D. He is the author of Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963: Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth (Routledge). Dr Bartley's research interests include Sino-American relations, security studies, Asia-Pacific affairs, International relations theory, and democratic theory.