Coming home to document a rapidly changing China

By Catherine Zandonella SOCIOLOGIST Yu Xie is the director of Princeton’s Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, which aims to conduct research on Chinese society through an interdisciplinary approach.  ON A VISIT TO CHINA in Continue Reading →

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

Author: Thomas J. Christensen, Princeton William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War Publisher: W.W. Norton, Paperback, 2016 Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the Continue Reading →

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

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 Continue Reading →