After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations

The future of U.S.-China relations is uncertain, with a more powerful and assertive China seen as a strategic rival to the United States. Leading scholars address recent changes in American assessments of China's capabilities and intentions and consider potential risks to international security, the significance of a shifting international distribution of power, problems of misperception, and the risk of conflicts. China's military modernization, technology, and Belt and Road Initiative, as well as regional concerns, receive special focus.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 388 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2021
Publisher: Brookings Institution

U.S. policy towards China is at a critical juncture, with a near-consensus view in the United States supporting engagement with China to integrate it into the U.S.-led international order since the 1970s. However, by the latter part of the 2010s, a more powerful and assertive China was seen as a strategic rival to the United States, leading to a collapse of the consensus. How the two countries tackle issues affecting the most important bilateral relationship in the world will significantly shape overall international relations for years to come. In this timely book, leading scholars of U.S.-China relations and China's foreign policy address recent changes in American assessments of China's capabilities and intentions and consider potential risks to international security, the significance of a shifting international distribution of power, problems of misperception, and the risk of conflicts. China's military modernization, advancing technology, and its Belt and Road Initiative, as well as regional concerns, such as the South China Sea disputes, relations with Japan, and tensions on the Korean Peninsula, receive special focus.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815738350