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India and the China Crisis (Paperback)
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India and the China Crisis (Paperback)
Series: International Crisis Behavior, 6
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The earliest accounts of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute cast
India as the victim of Chinese betrayal and expansionism, but a
more favorable image of China vis-a-vis India has appeared since
the 1970s. Since then, China has been portrayed as the victim of
India's self-righteous intransigence, with the 1962 India-China war
occurring because China was provoked into practicing a justifiable
form of realpolitik. These two seemingly irreconcilable academic
schools of thought still exist. In this case study of India's
decision-making between the years of 1959 and 1963, the critical
first years of its border conflict with China, Steven A. Hoffmann
takes an important step in reconciling the conflicting views of the
crisis and of the ascribed reasons for the war that ensued in 1962.
Drawing on interviews with Indian officials, military officers, and
political leaders and on memoirs and other sources gathered during
concentrated research in India, England, and North America between
1983 and 1986, the author provides previously unknown material on
the perceptions and realities of Indian decision making. A model
for international crisis behavior, as proposed by Michael Brecher,
is used to help establish a balanced treatment of information and
offer insights into such questions as why India and China both
failed to understand one another's frontier psychologies and
strategies, and why the Nehru government did not succeed in
managing the conflict. This richly detailed and carefully
researched approach is invaluable in this time when India and China
are once again exploring ways to establish a solid relationship.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1990.
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