Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes
@article{Fravel2005RegimeIA, title={Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes}, author={M. Taylor Fravel}, journal={International Security}, year={2005}, volume={30}, pages={46-83} }
Since the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait crisis, scholars and policymakers have become increasingly concerned about China's territorial ambitions. Yet China has also used peaceful means to manage conficts, settling seventeen of its twenty-three territorial disputes, often with substantial compromises. This article develops a counterintuitive argument about the effects of domestic confict on foreign policy to explain China's behavior. Contrary to the diversionary war hypothesis, this argument posits that…
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