Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974
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Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'

Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'


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With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for reconciliation with Beijing. Instead, she applies a more historically sensitive approach that privileges contending official American constructions of China's identity and character. This book demonstrates that ideas of reconciliation with China were already being propagated and debated within official circles in the USA during the 1960s. It traces the related policy discourse and imagery, and examines their continuities and evolution into the early 1970s that facilitated Nixon's new policy.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Competing Discourses, 1961–8: 1. 'Red menance' to 'revolutionary rival': re-casting the Chinese communist threat; 2. 'Troubled modernizer' but 'resurgent power': revisionist images of the PRC and arguments for a new China policy; 3. The revisionist legacy: the discourse of reconciliation with China by 1968; Part II. Discursive Transitions, 1969–71: 4. Nixon's public China policy discourse in context; 5. Debating the rapprochement: 'resurgent revolutionary power' vs. 'threatened realist power'; Part III. Discourses of Rapprochement in Practice, 1971–4: 6. 'Principled realist power': laying the discursive foundations of a new relationship, July 1971 to February 1972; 7. Principles in practice: policy implications of the decision for rapprochement; 8. 'Selling' the relationship: the Nixon Administration's justification of the New China policy; 9. 'Tacit ally' June 1972 to 1974: consolidating or saving the US-China rapprochement.

About the Author :
Evelyn Goh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She graduated with first class honours in Geography from Oxford University, and also obtained an M.Phil. in Environment & Development from Cambridge University. In 2001, she completed a doctorate in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. Dr. Goh has been a visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington DC, where she received the 2004 Southeast Asian Fellowship. Her main research interests lie in the areas of US foreign policy, US-China relations, and Asia-Pacific security and international relations. She has published on the diplomatic history of US-China relations, US strategy in the Asia-Pacific, the implications of 9/11 on US power, and environmental security. Her current projects include a comparative study of Southeast Asian states' security strategies vis-...-vis the US and China; a monograph tracing the evolution of the American policy towards China in the 1990s; and an investigation of the impact of China's hydropower development in the upper Mekong river basin on regional environmental security.

Review :
'This book provides a novel account of US-China rapprochement in the 1960s and 1970s ... Constructivists and students of American foreign policy will find much that is stimulating here.' Yuen Foong Khong, University of Oxford 'Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China is a superb book. Evelyn Goh makes good use of recently available U.S. archival materials and Chinese sources to offer new insights into the U.S. policy making process during the Johnson and Nixon administrations ... Both the specialist and the general reader will learn a great deal from this book." Robert Ross, Harvard University '... there is much to admire in this book'. International Affairs


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521839860
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 316
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 550 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521839866
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'
  • Width: 152 mm


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