China Program at APARC - Publications

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.

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"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

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Publications

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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

China’s Local Government Debt: The Grand Bargain

Nuclear Deterrence and the US-China Strategic Relationship

Accelerating Decarbonization in China and USA through Bilateral Collaboration

Military Competition With China: Harder Than the Cold War?

The Wisdom and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts

Chinese Bureaucracy Through Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian

Filtered Life

Chinese Intentions in the South China Sea

A Decade of Upheaval

The Precarious State of Cross-Strait Deterrence

The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy

Generating a Violent Insurgency

疫情之后: 企业的重振与美中经济关系前景

After COVID-19: Rebooting Business in China

Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A “Control Rights” Theory

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