In many areas of the natural and physical world, long periods of seeming stasis or small incremental changes are interrupted by large, sudden leaps-thus contradicting Darwinian evolution. This book shows how similar processes characterize international relations.
In many areas of the natural and physical world, long periods of seeming stasis or small incremental changes are interrupted by large, sudden leaps-thus contradicting Darwinian evolution. This book shows how similar processes characterize international relations.
Steve Chan's other recent books include Mobilizing the Past (Stanford, 2025); Fuses, Chains and Backlashes (Oxford, 2025); Geography and International Conflict (Routledge, 2025) with Weixing Hu; Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War (Cambridge, 2025) and Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift (Cambridge, 2024).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: the perspective of punctuated equilibrium 2. Punctuated equilibria: a review of political science literature 3. Epochal Breaks in sino-American relations, and lulls and lurches 4. Prospects of US intervention in a Taiwan crisis and the conjunctive logic 5. War, uneven economic growth, and trees don't grow to the Sky 6. Political entrepreneurship, narrative construction, and pitching the enemy image 7. Conclusion: from sino-American relations to the evolving global picture.
1. Introduction: the perspective of punctuated equilibrium 2. Punctuated equilibria: a review of political science literature 3. Epochal Breaks in sino-American relations, and lulls and lurches 4. Prospects of US intervention in a Taiwan crisis and the conjunctive logic 5. War, uneven economic growth, and trees don't grow to the Sky 6. Political entrepreneurship, narrative construction, and pitching the enemy image 7. Conclusion: from sino-American relations to the evolving global picture.
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