Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino American Conflict 1947 1958 1st Edition by Thomas Christensen ISBN 0691213321 9780691213323

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ISBN 10:  0691213321 
ISBN 13: 9780691213323
Author: Thomas Christensen

This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking “grand strategy,” domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman’s policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao’s initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman’s limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao’s self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders’ desire to avoid actual warfare.

Useful Adversaries Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino American Conflict 1947 1958 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Grand Strategy, National Political Power, and Two-Level Foreign Policy Analysis

Chapter 3: Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World

Chapter 4: Absent at the Creation: Acheson’s Decision to Forgo Relations with the Chinese Communists

Chapter 5: The Real Lost Chance in China: Nonrecognition, Taiwan, and the Disaster at the Yalu

Chapter 6: Continuing Conflict over Taiwan: Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the 1958 Quemoy Crisis

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Appendix A: American Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1950

Appendix B: Mao’s Korean War Telegrams

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