Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland. Dr. Schake is the author of five books, among them "America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?" (Penguin Random House Australia, Lowy Institute, 2018) and "Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony" (Harvard University Press, 2017). Dr. Schake has a PhD and MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, as well as an MPM from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her BA in international relations is from Stanford University.

Allison Schwartz was a research and communications associate at the American Enterprise Institute. She received her masters from Georgetown’s Security Studies Program.

Contents

Foreword

Kori Schake

Maps

Is Taiwan Part of China?

Michael Rubin

The Rise of the “China Threat”

Giselle Donnelly

China’s Three Roads to Controlling Taiwan

Dan Blumenthal and Frederick W. Kagan

Gray-Zone Subjugation of Taiwan: A More Acute Risk Than Invasion?

Elisabeth Braw

Deterring Coercion and Conflict Across the Taiwan Strait

Michael Beckley, Zack Cooper, and Allison Schwartz

Getting Ready for a Long War: Why a US-China Fight in the Western Pacific Won’t End Quickly

Hal Brands and Michael Beckley

Bigger Might Be Better

Giselle Donnelly

Clausewitzian Friends

Olivia Garard

Asian Allies and Partners in a Taiwan Contingency: What Should the United States Expect?

Zack Cooper and Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Reconciling Two Visions for the Defense of Taiwan: Reviving the Overall Defense Concept by Operationalizing the Taiwan Enhanced Resiliency Act

Blake Herzinger

Is the United States Military Ready to Defend Taiwan?

Elaine McCusker and Emily Coletta

Conventional Deterrence and Taiwan’s Independence: Necessary Investments

Mackenzie Eaglen and John G. Ferrari

Taking Taiwan Through Cyber

Klon Kitchen

Deterring War over Taiwan: Some Lessons from Korea and Ukraine.

Paul Wolfowitz

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