The China Fantasy [2006]
The China Fantasy [2006] challenges the assumptions about China’s future put forward to the American public by politicians, business executives and leading scholars. Over the past two decades, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and many other American leaders have repeatedly suggested that China’s growing trade and prosperity will
The China Fantasy [2006] challenges the assumptions about China’s future put forward to the American public by politicians, business executives and leading scholars. Over the past two decades, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and many other American leaders have repeatedly suggested that China’s growing trade and prosperity will inevitably lead to political liberalization and democracy. Mann argues that in fact, China will retain its repressive one-party system for a long time.
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet [2004]
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet [2004] examines the background, the careers and the ideas of the group of officials who joined together as George W. Bush’s initial foreign policy team in 2001, who were on the job during the attacks of Sept. 11 and then brought America into the invasion with Iraq two years later. For
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet [2004] examines the background, the careers and the ideas of the group of officials who joined together as George W. Bush’s initial foreign policy team in 2001, who were on the job during the attacks of Sept. 11 and then brought America into the invasion with Iraq two years later. For his narrative, Mann concentrates on the long, intersecting careers of six people: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Armitage.
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton [1998]
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton [1998]
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton [1998] investigates America’s diplomacy with China over a 30-year period starting with Richard Nixon’s and Henry Kissinger’s opening to China. Making use of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, it describes the hidden conversation
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton [1998] investigates America’s diplomacy with China over a 30-year period starting with Richard Nixon’s and Henry Kissinger’s opening to China. Making use of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, it describes the hidden conversations between American and Chinese leaders in the early years, the sudden shock of the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, and the efforts by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to restore the relationship.