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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465930303321

Autore

O'Hanlon Michael E.

Titolo

A glass half full? : rebalance, reassurance, and resolve in the U.S.-China strategic relationship / / Michael E. O'Hanlon and James Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8157-3130-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Marshall Papers

Disciplina

327.73051

Soggetti

National security - United States

National security - China

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations United States

China Strategic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. A crossroads in U.S.- China relations -- 2. The essence of the conundrum -- 3. The agenda for strategic reassurance and resolve -- 4. Defense planning and military modernization -- 5. Contingency planning -- 6. Strategic issues : space, cyber, and nuclear matters -- 7. Communications, reconnaissance, and confidence building -- 8. The path ahead.

Sommario/riassunto

The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon's opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic engagement and a diplomatic partnership together with robust trade and investment relations, among other activities, have meant a peaceful context for reform and China's rise, helping to lift millions of Chinese out of poverty and giving the PRC incentive to work within the U.S.-led global order. The logic of the relationship, however, is now open to serious debate on both sides of the Pacific. After a period of American preoccupation with the Middle East, President Obama attempted a rebalancing of U.S. interests toward the



Asia-Pacific region. With the Trump administration in office, the U.S.-China relationship appears to be at a crossroads: does it continue to focus on constructive engagement and managing differences, or prepare for a new era of rivalry and conflict? Here, following up on their 2014 book, Strategic Reassurance and Resolve, the authors provide a more balanced assessment of the current state of relations and suggest measures that could help stabilize the security relationship, without minimizing the very real problems that both Beijing and Washington must address. The authors are hopeful, but are also under no illusions about the significance of the challenges now posed to the bilateral relationship, as well as regional order, by the rise of China and the responses of America together with its allies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786279503321

Titolo

Battlestar Galactica and international relations / / edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07005-4

1-299-16055-7

1-135-08969-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Popular culture and world politics

Classificazione

POL000000SOC032000

Altri autori (Persone)

KierseyNicholas J

NeumannIver B

Disciplina

791.45/72

Soggetti

Television programs - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: circulating on board the Battlestar --  Critical humanism: theory, methodology, and Battlestar Galactica -- Religion in sort of a global sense: the relevance of religious practices for political community in Battlestar Galactica and beyond -- Narrating identity, techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in international relations and Battlestar Galactica -- Machines that matter: the politics and ethics of "unnatural" bodies -- Critical reflections on Battlestar



Galactica and the hyperreal genocide -- So say who all? cosmopolitanism, hybridity, and colonialism in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica -- Security or human security? civil-military relations in Battlestar Galactica -- Cylons in Baghdad: experiencing counter-insurgency in Battlestar Galactica -- Seeing others: Battlestar Galactica's portrayal of insurgents at a time of war -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tackling some of the key contemporary issues in IR, the writers of BSG have taken on a range of important political themes and issues, including the legitimacy of military government, the tactical utility of genocide, and even the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence technologies for the very category of what it means to be 'human'. The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our mentalities of rule are founded"--