The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy / Edward N. Luttwak.
Luttwak, Edward N., author.
2012
UA835 .L87 2012
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Title The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy / Edward N. Luttwak.
Author Luttwak, Edward N., author.
ISBN 9780674067936
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067936
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (268 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674067936 doi
Call Number UA835 .L87 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.033551
Summary As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China's own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, Luttwak argues that the most populous nation on Earth-and its second largest economy-may be headed for a fall. For any country whose rising strength cannot go unnoticed, the universal logic of strategy allows only military or economic growth. But China is pursuing both goals simultaneously. Its military buildup and assertive foreign policy have already stirred up resistance among its neighbors, just three of whom-India, Japan, and Vietnam-together exceed China in population and wealth. Unless China's leaders check their own ambitions, a host of countries, which are already forming tacit military coalitions, will start to impose economic restrictions as well. Chinese leaders will find it difficult to choose between pursuing economic prosperity and increasing China's military strength. Such a change would be hard to explain to public opinion. Moreover, Chinese leaders would have to end their reliance on ancient strategic texts such as Sun Tzu's Art of War. While these guides might have helped in diplomatic and military conflicts within China itself, their tactics-such as deliberately provoking crises to force negotiations-turned China's neighbors into foes. To avoid arousing the world's enmity further, Luttwak advises, Chinese leaders would be wise to pursue a more sustainable course of economic growth combined with increasing military and diplomatic restraint.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Chapter One. The Fallacy of Unresisted Aggrandizement
Chapter Two. Premature Assertiveness
Chapter Three. Great- State Autism Defined
Chapter Four. Historical Residues in Chinese Conduct
Chapter Five. The Coming Geo- Economic Resistance to the Rise of China
Chapter Six. China's Aggrandizement and Global Reactions
Chapter Seven. The Inevitable Analogy
Chapter Eight. Could China Adopt a Successful Grand Strategy?
Chapter Nine. The Strategic Unwisdom of the Ancients
Chapter Ten. Strategic Competence. The Historical Record
Chapter Eleven. The Inevitability of Mounting Resistance
Chapter Twelve. Why Current Policies Will Persist
Chapter Thirteen. Australia Weaving a Coalition
Chapter Fourteen. Japan Disengaging from Disengagement
Chapter Fifteen. Defiant Vietnam. The Newest American Ally?
Chapter Sixteen. South Korea. A Model Tianxia Subordinate?
Chapter Seventeen. Mongolia. Northern Outpost of the Coalition?
Chapter Eighteen. Indonesia. From Ostracism to Coalition
Chapter Nineteen. The Philippines. How to Make Enemies
Chapter Twenty. Norway Norway? Norway!
Chapter Twenty - one. The Three China Policies of the United States
Chapter Twenty - two. Conclusions and Predictions
Appendix. The Rise and Fall of "Peaceful Rise"
Notes
Glossary
Index

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