Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes

M. T. Fravel

DOI:10.1162/016228805775124534

Corpus ID: 56347789

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. T. Fravel},
  journal={International Security},
  year={2005},
  volume={30},
  pages={46-83}
}

M. T. Fravel

Published 2005

Political Science

International Security

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… CONTINUE READING

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