Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and their related goods and technologies. Once a critic of the global nonproliferation regime, China is now a supporter of it, although with some reservations. Medeiros analyzes how and why Chinese nonproliferation policies have evolved so substantially since the early 1980s. He argues that U.S. diplomacy has played a significant and enduring role in shaping China's gradual recognition of the dangers of proliferation, and in its subsequent altered behavior.
Price: $90.00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Series: Studies in Asian Security
Publication Date:
06 December 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780804755528
Format: Hardcover
"Reluctant Restraint is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the evolution of China's nonproliferation policies and practices. Evan Medieros, a China scholar at the RAND Corporation, presents a fascinating account of the important changes regarding Chinese nonproliferation policies and behavior since the early 1980s, and the role that the United States has played in influencing China's perspectives on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)."
Evan S. Medeiros is a Senior Political Scientist at The RAND Corporation, in the Washington, DC. office. He has published on a broad range of issues related to China's foreign and national security policies. He previously worked on Asian security issues at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
