TY - BOOK AU - Christensen,Thomas J. TI - Worse than a monolith: alliance politics and problems of coercive diplomacy in Asia T2 - Princeton studies in international history and politics SN - 9781400838813 AV - DS35.2 .C47 2011eb U1 - 327.5 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Alliances KW - History KW - 20th century KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Government KW - International KW - bisacsh KW - International Relations KW - General KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Military Science KW - fast KW - Diplomatic relations KW - Asia KW - Foreign relations KW - 1945- KW - Asie KW - Relations extérieures KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index; Growing pains : alliance formation and the road to conflict in Korea -- Alliance problems, signaling, and escalation of Asian conflict -- The benefits of communist alliance coordination and the continuing costs of U.S. alliance formation 1951-56 -- The Sino-Soviet split and problems for the United States in Asia, Europe, and Americas, 1956-64 -- From escalation in Vietnam to Sino-American rapprochement 1964-72 -- The fall and revival of coercive diplomacy : security partnerships and Sino-American relations, 1972-2009 N2 - In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that when states are engaged in coercive diplomacy--combining threats and assurances to influence the behavior of real or potential adversaries--divisions, rivalries, and lack of coordination within the opposing camp often make it more difficult to prevent the onset of conflict, to prevent existing conlicts from escalating, and to negociate the end to those conflicts promptly UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=360716 ER -