Deterrence and Strategic Culture: Manuscript Materials

by Shu Guang Zhang

Does strategic thinking on the question of deterrence vary between cultures? Should practitioners assume a common understanding of deterrence regardless of national and cultural differences? Shu Guang Zhang takes on these questions by exploring Sino-American confrontations between 1949 and 1958. Zhang draws on recently declassified U.S. documents and previously inaccessible Chinese Communist Party records to demonstrate that the Chinese and the Americans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427517
• ISBN13: 9780801427510
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.