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Signals, Threats, And Deterrence: Alive And Well In The Taiwan Strait, Glenn R. Butterton Jan 1997

Signals, Threats, And Deterrence: Alive And Well In The Taiwan Strait, Glenn R. Butterton

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Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections in March 1996, which motivated mainland China to stage large scale contemporaneous war games in the Taiwan Strait and aim unusually belligerent rhetoric at Taipei. The United States responded by deploying substantial naval forces in the area. After examining this confrontation between China, Taiwan, and the United States in terms of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, international law, and non-nuclear deterrence theory, the author presents a novel analysis of indirect deterrence communication between the United States and China


Securing The Strength Of The Renewed Npt: China, The Linchpin "Middle Kingdom", Gary J. Meise Jan 1997

Securing The Strength Of The Renewed Npt: China, The Linchpin "Middle Kingdom", Gary J. Meise

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The consensus indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1995 and the more recent conclusion of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. which was supported by all five of the world's declared nuclear weapons states, allow for unprecedented optimism by nonproliferation experts regarding nuclear weapons proliferation curtailment and weapons reduction. These recent inroads into the accomplishment of NPT goals raise new questions. however. regarding the underlying commitment level of nuclear powers. China's proliferation record, in particular. is marred with inconsistencies, but its current economic growth and increasingly nonisolationist policies may cause China to reconsider its past noncompliance with the …


Appendix B Parties To The 1949 Geneva Convention Relative To The Treatment Of Prisoners Of War As Of 1 June 1977, Howard S. Levie Jan 1978

Appendix B Parties To The 1949 Geneva Convention Relative To The Treatment Of Prisoners Of War As Of 1 June 1977, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

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Détente And South Asia, Archer K. Blood Jul 1975

Détente And South Asia, Archer K. Blood

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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