Interpreting China's Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (Project Air Force Report,)
By going beyond the narrow contemporary perspective and locating their discussions of China's grand strategy in a meta-historical analytical context, Swaine and Tellis undoubtedly make a major contribution to our understanding of China's current strategic behavior...particularly at a time when China's international relations community and policy establishment are in search of China's grand strategy in the post-Cold War international context. Even more importantly, Swaine and Tellis have opened a wider space for discussion of the idea of history in strategic and security studies, and more broadly in international relations.Yongjin ZhangThis is an impressive work. It sets out China's grand strategy as manifest in the entire sweep of history, from the Han Dynasty to fifty years of the People's Republic...This is an excellent introduction to China's past as precedent to present and prospective foreign policies.Allen S. WhitingMichael Swaine, author of the outstanding The Military & Political Succession in China (1992), and his fellow RAND analyst Ashley Tellis have written a very good book about Chinese security in both historical and future perspective. It will certainly be of interest to the policy community, as it should be to all who work on Asian security...an impressive study of China's grand strategy, and it is worthy of serious examination.Naval War College ReviewA sober and useful review of Chinese strategy.Foreign AffairsSwaine and Tellis have written a well-balanced book which merits reading well beyond the circle of those interested in US-China security policies.New Delhi World Affairs