Fuses, chains, and backlashes : China, the United States, and the dynamics of conflict contagion and escalation /
"Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the reasons for some local, bilateral conflicts escalate and spread to become large, intense, and multilateral wars? This book investigates the processes that lead to huge albeit rare conflagrations such as World War I. It stresses equifinality, historica...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the reasons for some local, bilateral conflicts escalate and spread to become large, intense, and multilateral wars? This book investigates the processes that lead to huge albeit rare conflagrations such as World War I. It stresses equifinality, historical contingency and conjunctive reasoning to explain the dynamics of conflict escalation and contagion such as for this paradigmatic case. General patterns from past conflicts stemming from enduring rivalries are drawn to inform the danger of a war that can ensnare China and the United States over Taiwan. Thus, this book embeds the study of Sino-American relations in a historical and comparative context informed by the cumulative evidence from international relations scholarship (both quantitative pattern analyses and qualitative case studies) rather than treating this pair as sui generis"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197812907 0197812902 9780197812884 0197812880 |