Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations

In many areas of the natural and physical world, long periods of seeming stasis or small incremental changes are interrupted by large, sudden leaps. This book illustrates how similar processes characterize international relations. This book points to such occurrences, for example the collapse of the USSR, the unravelling of Napoleon's wartime alliance, and the possible future status of the US dollar; and it illustrates in greater detail the admission of China to the United Nations, the history of economic development of various countries, and the possible formation of a countervailing coalition against US primacy. Steve Chan investigates these instances and explains the dynamics governing these processes of lulls and lurches and illuminates how qualitative research can apply the Boolean logic to study systematically the danger of a possible future Sino-American conflict based on past episodes.

Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations features in the following genres: Geopolitics, Political science and theory, Comparative politics

Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations is available in Paperback, Hardback

Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations was written by Steve Chan and published by Cambridge University Press

Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations has 283 pages

£85.50