Studies in Asian Security
Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China’s Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004

Evan S. Medeiros

Format
cloth
Pages
376
ISBN
978-0-8047-5552-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reluctant Restraint is the eighth book in the Studies in Asian Security series sponsored by the East-West Center and published by Stanford University Press. This book examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and their related goods and technologies. Once a critic of the global nonproliferation regime, China is now a supporter of it, although with some reservations. Medeiros analyzes how and why Chinese nonproliferation policies have evolved so substantially since the early 1980s. He argues that U.S. diplomacy has played a significant and enduring role in shaping China's gradual recognition of the dangers of proliferation, and in its subsequent altered behavior.

 

 

 

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Contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Introduction: A Framework for Analyzing the Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Behavior
  2. A Gradual Engagement: China and Nuclear Nonproliferation
  3. Reluctant Participant: China, Missile Nonproliferation, and the Missile Technology Control Regime
  4. Negative Feedback: Assessing the Impact of U.S. Missile Defense on Chinese Arms-Control and Nonproliferation Policies
  5. A Cultural Revolution: The Development of China's Arms-Control and Nonproliferation Community
  6. Conclusions