
Beyond Power Transitions
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David C. Kang is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Korean Studies Institute. His Columbia University Press books include East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (2010) and, with Victor D. Cha, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (revised and updated edition, 2018).
Content
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. What Are the Lessons of History?
2. The Common Conjecture in War and Peace: Culture, Not Structure
Part II. History
3. The Lessons of East Asian History, 500-1900: Internal Challenges, Not External Threat
4. The Mongol Conquest of the Thirteenth Century and the Song-Yuan Transition
5. The Small Attack the Large: The Imjin War, 1592-1598
6. Internal Collapse: The Ming-Qing Transition, 1600-1680
7. How Korea Remained Independent Until 1910: The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large States
Part III. Contemporary U.S.-China Relations
8. East Asian Power Transitions in the Twenty-First Century
Part IV. Conclusion
9. The Lessons of History and the Future of East Asia
Appendix: Journal Rankings and Journal Articles on Power Transition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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