Understanding China and India

Security Implications for the United States and the World

AvRollie Lal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Key to developing national security strategy is figuring out what other countries want. What are their national interests? How do they perceive them? How do they project them onto the world stage? Understanding all of this helps us to predict their behavior. In developing a national security strategy for Asia, the United States must take into account the desires of two emerging giants of the 21st century: China and India. We would be mistaken, Lal argues, if we lumped China and India together in one Asian policy, because these two countries differ greatly from one another.Based on over 120 in-depth interviews with government officials and scholars in Beijing and New Delhi, the author's research yields some surprising news about the differences between China and India. Chinese leaders define their national interest as preservation of the state and territorial unity, whereas Indian decision makers define their national interests in relation to forces beyond India, such as the forces of globalization and their geopolitical status. One factor that accounts for these differences, among the many explored in this book, is the influence of one-party rule in China and parliamentary democracy in India. Another important finding is that China and India are unlikely to pursue hostility with each other. The U.S. approach to Asia will need to take these differences into account.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-01
Mått:161 x 240 x 16 mm
Vikt:473 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Praeger Security International
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275989682

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Rollie Lal, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the College of Security Studies at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an expert on strategy, international politics, and organized crime, and has written on a wide variety of issues related to India, China, Iran, Central Asia, North Africa, and political Islam. She is a co-author of The Muslim World after 9/11 (2004) and America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq (2003). She is also the author of Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads (2006) and articles in Orbis, the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Diego Sun Tribune, and Daily Yomiuri.

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"This volume will be a good addition to all university and college libraries with significant holdings in international affairs or Asian studies. Its conclusions will not be outdated soon, and it is accessible to all levels of students. Lal posits that China and India have radically divergent views of their own national interests. Extensive interviewing of government officials and academics in both countries led the author to conclude that China sees its national interest as preservation of the state and its territorial unity, while India defines its future more in terms of the impact of globalization and its geopolitical status. Moreover, the author argues that despite these different views, China and India have pursued quite similar policies: economic reform and defense modernization. As a policy analyst, Lal succinctly and persuasively lays out the implications for the larger world, including the US, of the emergence of these two Asian superpowers in the coming century. The book is well researched, cogently argued, and well documented, and includes the interview questions used in its research. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through practitioners." - Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Karl D. JacksonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Walter Andersen1 National Interests in China and India2 Similarities between China's and India's Pursuits of National Objectives3 National Identity and National Interest4 Globalization, Geopolitics, and Sovereignty5 Political Institutions and the Hierarchy of Interests6 China-India Relations7 ImplicationsConclusionAppendix A China Interview QuestionsAppendix B India Interview QuestionsBibliographyIndex