Rapkin, David P. <br/><br/>
Transition scenarios  China and the United States in the twenty-first century 
 21st 
David P. Rapkin and William R. Thompson 
 - VII, 273 S. 
<br/><br/>Twenty-first-century transition strugglesScenario construction -- Scenarios of future United States-China warfare : what is missing from this picture? -- Power-transition, offensive-realism, and leadership long-cycle perspectives on structural transitions -- Systemic transition dynamics and the conflict drivers in the China-United States transition context -- Constraints on transition conflict -- Weak conflict constraints and weak conflict inducements : the "more of the same" and "Pax Americana II" scenarios -- Weak conflict constraints and strong conflict inducements : the "transition war" scenario -- Strong conflict constraints and strong conflict inducements : the "Pax Sinica" scenario -- Strong conflict constraints and weak conflict inducements : the "liberal peace" scenario -- Using the scenarios in the twenty-first century. Twenty-first-century transition struggles -- Scenario construction -- Scenarios of future United States-China warfare : what is missing from this picture? -- Power-transition, offensive-realism, and leadership long-cycle perspectives on structural transitions -- Systemic transition dynamics and the conflict drivers in the China-United States transition context -- Constraints on transition conflict -- Weak conflict constraints and weak conflict inducements : the "more of the same" and "Pax Americana II" scenarios -- Weak conflict constraints and strong conflict inducements : the "transition war" scenario -- Strong conflict constraints and strong conflict inducements : the "Pax Sinica" scenario -- Strong conflict constraints and weak conflict inducements : the "liberal peace" scenario -- Using the scenarios in the twenty-first century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226040479  paperback 9780226040332  cloth 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013003714 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War--Forecasting
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Relations--United States<br/>United States--Relations--China
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E183.8.C5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.7305109/05