• ISBN13: 9789382264095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: HistoryPolitics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Foundation Books
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 266
• Original Price: 695.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

About the Book: Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games The most typical treatment of international relations is toconceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleyingback and forth. In reality, interstate relations are often at leasttwo-level games in which decision-makers operate not only in aninternational environment but also in a competitive domesticcontext. Given that interstate rivalries are responsible for adisproportionate share of discord in world politics, this book setsout to explain just how these two-level rivalries really work. Contents List of Contributors 1 Conflict Propensities in AsianRivalries 2 China and Taiwan: Balance of Rivalry with Weapons of MassDemocratization 3 Domestic Politics and the U.S.-China Rivalry 4 Peace and Conflict in the Indo-Pakistani Rivalry: Domestic andStrategic Causes 5 Instability in Tibet and the Sino-Indian Strategic Rivalry: DoDomestic Politics Matter? 6 The Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership: The End ofRivalry? 7 The Rivalry Between the Two Koreas 8 Asymmetric Rivals: China and Vietnam 9 Two-level Games in Asian Rivalries Notes Index About Author: Sumit Ganguly, William R. Thompson Sumit Ganguly, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in IndianCultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington Edited by: William R. Thompson, Distinguished Professor andDonald A. Rogers Professor, Political Science, Indiana University,Bloomington