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Publications

Rigorous and timely scholarship on political, economic, social, and foreign policy challenges in China and U.S.-China relations for the academic community, foreign policy experts, and the interested public.

China Program faculty and fellows regularly author books, book chapters, and articles that appear in peer-reviewed academic journals and acclaimed scholarly and trade presses. We also share the outcomes of our research projects and the proceedings of our conferences, workshops, and policy outreach activities in monographs and other volumes that are disseminated through the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s publishing program jointly with Stanford University Press and the Brookings Institution. Browse our publications below.

3d book cover mockup of "Upstart: How China Became a Great Power," by Oriana Skylar Mastro

Publication Spotlight

"Upstart," by Oriana Skylar Mastro, unveils how China achieved great power status and built it from a weaker resource position in a U.S.-dominated international system.

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Publications

Books

Publications

Publication Spotlight

Upstart

Encounters and Escalation in the Indo-Pacific

Sino-Russian Military Alignment and Its Implications for Global Security

Task Force Diplomacy

People’s Republic of China in the Baltic States – A Book Review

China’s America Policy: Back to the Future

Shorenstein APARC 2022–23 Annual Report

The Military Challenge of the People’s Republic of China

China’s Nuclear Enterprise

Deepening US-Taiwan Cooperation through Semiconductors

The Challenges of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait

The Next Flashpoint?

Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia

How South Korea Can Contribute to the Defense of Taiwan

Minilateral Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

The Logic of Governance in China

Bureaucrats, Local Elites, and Economic Development

Is China a Challenge to U.S. National Security?

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker: Scholar and Public Servant

Defense, Deterrence, and the Role of Guam

Understanding the Challenge of China’s Rise: Fixing Conceptual Confusion about Intentions

Drivers of Innovation

Firms as Revenue Safety Nets: Political Connections and Returns to the Chinese State

Chinese Grand Strategy

China’s Grand Strategy

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