China's Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War [Paperback]

The first study to systematically analyze the patterns of China's foreign policy crisis behavior after the Cold War.Drawing from a wealth of primary sources and interviews, this book offers a systematic analysis of China's crisis behavior since the Cold War. It proposes a new framework to help identify the factors which determine whether Chinese leaders decide to escalate or scale down their response to situations of crisis.Drawing from a wealth of primary sources and interviews, this book offers a systematic analysis of China's crisis behavior since the Cold War. It proposes a new framework to help identify the factors which determine whether Chinese leaders decide to escalate or scale down their response to situations of crisis.Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 'embassy bombing' incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision with a United States aircraft, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute with Japan. China's response to each incident, however, has varied considerably. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources and interviews, this book offers a systematic analysis of China's crisis behavior in order to identify the factors which determine when Chinese leaders decide to escalate or scale down their response to crises. Inspired by prospect theory - a Nobel Prize-winning behavioral psychology theory - Kai He proposes a 'political survival prospect' model as a means to understand the disparities in China's behavior. He argues that China's response depends on a combination of three factors that shape leaders' views on the prospects for their 'political survival status', including the severity of the crisis, leaders' domestic authority, and international pressure.1. China's foreign policy crises after the Cold War; 2. Political survival and China's crisis behavior; 3. The Yinhe incident and the Taiwan Strait crisis; 4. The embassy bombing incident and the EP-3 mid-air collision; 5. The Impeccable incident and the boatl£»