US Foreign Policy and China

Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security (Rowman Littlefield) and The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague (Routledge). Dr Warren is also co-editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press) and Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP), George Washington University, and Asia-Pacific Fellow at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation, Washington DC. Adam Bartley is a lecturer and China foreign relations specialist at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia where he received his Ph.D. He is the author of Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963: Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth (Routledge). Dr Bartley’s research interests include Sino–American relations, security studies, Asia-Pacific affairs, International relations theory, and democratic theory.

This book provides a critical analysis of the key security issues faced by Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump in their foreign policy towards China. It becomes clear how a new phase of rivalry and confrontation in the relationship between Beijing and Washington developed in the first two decades of the 21st century, the consequences of which can be seen today in China's behavior in the Ukraine war.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations/Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1 – The Bush administration’s First Term: Reconciling the China ‘Threat’ with New PrioritiesChapter 2 – The Bush Administration’s Second Term: Searching for the Responsible StakeholderChapter 3 – The Obama Administration’s First Term: The Promises of the ‘Pivot’Chapter 4 – The Obama Administration’s Second Term: Balancing Continuities and New RealitiesChapter 5 – The Trump Administration: Conflicting Narratives and Aberrant DeparturesAfterword; Bibliography