US Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity
Dean P. Chen | | ISBN: 978-1-935049-44-9 $68.50 |
| Forthcoming March 2012/285 pages |
DESCRIPTION
Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict—recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei—and instead choose the path of strategic ambiguity? Dean Chen sheds light on current US policy by exploring the thoughts and deliberations of President Truman and his top advisers, among them Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Livingston Merchant, and Dean Rusk. Chen also highlights the very unambiguous, and continuing, liberal aims of US Taiwan policy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dean P. Chen is lecturer in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
CONTENTS
- US Interests in Taiwan.
- US-China-Taiwan Relations from Nixon to Obama.
- Wilson's Vision for an Open China.
- Freeing Taiwan from Communist Domination.
- The Inception of Strategic Ambiguity.
- The Future of US Policy in the Taiwan Strait.
"Well written and well researched.... An interesting and unique thesis."—Scott Kastner, University of Maryland