Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Book Overview

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Only a Taiwan Straits conflict could plunge Americans into war with a nuclear-armed great power. In a timely and deeply informed book, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker traces the thorny relationship between the United States and Taiwan as both watch China's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674060520
• ISBN13: 9780674060524
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"