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

By Evan Medeiros

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755523
• ISBN13: 9780804755528
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"