Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia

(Book jacket image courtesy of the publisher)

(Book jacket image courtesy of the publisher)

Thomas Christensen explains how problems in alliance politics complicate coercive diplomacy in international relations and thereby make war more likely and peace accords harder to reach. Christensen is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, and director of the China and the World Program in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Princeton University Press, 2011