Reluctant Restraint

The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004

• Author(s): Evan S. Medeiros,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 357
• ISBN_10: 0804755523
  ISBN_13: 9780804755528
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / China , Political Science / General , Political Science / International Relations / Arms Control , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / World / Asian ,

Description:... 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.