Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes
China, the United States, and the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 September 2025
- ISBN 9780197812860
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 18x156x235 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 621
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Short description:
Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the factors and processes that have historically ignited wars among the great powers and applies the resulting insights to examine the potential for contemporary Sino-American competition to flare into conflict. Distinguished political scientist Steve Chan emphasizes the importance of considering multiple enabling conditions for system-level conflict, including power shifts, armament races, alliance dynamics, and enduring rivalries. But these conditions in themselves do not always lead to war. Chan introduces the idea of a catalyst--or fuse--that ignites the combustible mixture produced by these variables' interactions. By analyzing possible causal pathways to interstate war and applying this historical, empirical context to the present-day relationship between the US and China, Chan hopes to help us learn from the past and avoid future catastrophe.
MoreLong description:
How do interstate conflicts start, spread and escalate? Not all local or regional rivalries develop into devastating multistate wars, but those that do cause upheaval across the world. It is important, therefore, to study causal chains and pathways that can trigger a conflict of international proportions.
Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the factors and processes that have historically ignited wars among the great powers and applies the resulting insights to examine the potential for contemporary Sino-American competition to flare into conflict. Distinguished political scientist Steve Chan emphasizes the importance of considering multiple enabling conditions for system-level conflict, including power shifts, armament races, alliance dynamics, and enduring rivalries. But these conditions in themselves do not always lead to war. Chan introduces the idea of a catalyst--or fuse--that ignites the combustible mixture produced by these variables' interactions. He traces the origins of many large conflagrations to local feuds-such as the dispute across the Taiwan Straits--which in turn invite intervention by third parties--like the United States. By analyzing possible causal pathways to interstate war and applying this historical, empirical context to the present-day relationship between the US and China, Chan hopes to help us learn from the past and avoid future catastrophe.
In Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes, Chan (Univ. of Colorado) provides an insightful analysis of the state and systemic factors that influence the potential for conflict between the US and China. ..Chan's concluding chapter on the dynamics of Sino-American tensions offers a concise and valuable analysis of the prospects for US-China conflict.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation
Local Rivalries as Possible Fuses for Larger Conflicts
Alliances as Balls and Chains on Conflict Contagion
The Backlash Effects of Self-Defeating Policies
The Dynamics of Sino-American Tension
References
Index
Introduction to the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation
Local Rivalries as Possible Fuses for Larger Conflicts
Alliances as Balls and Chains on Conflict Contagion
The Backlash Effects of Self-Defeating Policies
The Dynamics of Sino-American Tension
References
Index
