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"China's threat to U.S. global hegemony has dominated international policy discussion for years. But the power transition debate-whether the growing power, China, is bound to challenge and overtake the bigger power, the United States-relies on a theory almost exclusively based on European examples from the past 400 years. Xinru Ma and David Kang argue in this concise, incisive book that-as China is not an eighteenth-century European state fighting for survival against a number of similarly-sized states-China's example can shed new light on how great powers behave. China is a massive and ancient civilization centrally located in the East Asian region. Upon closer inspection, China itself has historically worried very little about expansionist war from a rising power, let alone carrying one out. An examination of over 1,500 years in East Asian history reveals that power transition wars almost never created a transition in power between different nations. More prevalent in East Asian history is dynastic transition, with seventeen out of twenty regime changes resulting from internal rebellion. Had power transition theory started with East Asian history rather than European history, it would emphasize the domestic risks and constraints on great powers. If scholars and policymakers want a meaningful discussion of a way out of today's great power conflict between the United States and China, rather than threat inflation, then they need a more careful analysis of both contemporary China and the historical record. The lessons of East Asian history are clear: both contemporary China and the United States face considerable internal challenges that are more pressing than external threats"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. What Are the Lessons of History?
• 2 THE COMMON CONJECTURE IN WAR AND PEACE
• II HISTORY
• 3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500-1900
• 4 THE MONGOL CONQUEST OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY AND THE SONG-YUAN TRANSITION
• 5 THE SMALL ATTACK THE LARGE
• 6 INTERNAL COLLAPSE
• 7 HOW KOREA REMAINED INDEPENDENT UNTIL 1910
• III CONTEMPORARY U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
• 8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First Century
• IV CONCLUSION
• 9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East Asia
• Appendix JOURNAL RANKINGS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES ON POWER TRANSITION
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY

• INDEX.

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Author/Creator:

Ma, Xinru , author

Contributors:

Kang, David C. (David Chan-oong), 1965- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Beyond power transitions: the lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S.-China relations [by Ma, X.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Beyond power transitions [by Ma, X.] (New York : Columbia University Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780231205368; LCCN 2023058641)

Related Series:

Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics

Subjects:

International relations

Security, International — East Asia

Regionalism — East Asia

Legitimacy of governments — East Asia

National security — Case studies

East Asia — Foreign relations

Political stability — Case studies

China — Foreign relations — Forecasting

United States — Foreign relations — Forecasting

Genres:

History — Methodology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

LC3969 .M395 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780231555975 (ebook)
0231555970
9780231205368 (hardback) [Invalid]
9780231205375 (trade paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023058642

OCLC Numbers:

1427250616