Ebooks for the Classroom+Faculty

China''s Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors
ISBN: 9781898823681
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Renaissance Books
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Political Science;

Here is a history of the South China Sea (SCS) conflict and the stakes for each of the bordering states and China's (PRC) interaction with them. it examines the US's role in the region. It examines the PRC's perception of the SCS, and its strategy to claim the islands and waters, in the context of the strategies of other stake-holding nations.

Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, US Naval War College, with a MSc in International History from LSE (1985) and a PhD in History from Columbia University (1993). His specialisation includes Chinese, Japanese, and Russian history, East Asian international relations, Sino-Soviet diplomatic history, and Chinese military history. He is the author of Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927 (1997); Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001, translated into Chinese); Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shan.dong Question (2002); plus co-editor, with Stephen Kotkin and Clive Schofield, of Beijing's Power and China's Border: Twenty Neighbors in Asia (2013).Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, US Naval War College, with a MSc in International History from LSE (1985) and a PhD in History from Columbia University (1993). His specialisation includes Chinese, Japanese, and Russian history, East Asian international relations, Sino-Soviet diplomatic history, and Chinese military history. He is the author of Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927 (1997); Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (2001, translated into Chinese); Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shan­dong Question (2002); plus co-editor, with Stephen Kotkin and Clive Schofield, of Beijing's Power and China's Border: Twenty Neighbors in Asia (2013).