The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Fallacy of Unresisted Aggrandizement -- 2. Premature Assertiveness -- 3. Great-State Autism Defined -- 4. Historical Residues in Chinese Conduct -- 5. The Coming Geo-Economic Resistance to the Rise of China -- 6. China's Aggrandizement and Global Reactions -- 7. The Inevitable Analogy -- 8. Could China Adopt a Successful Grand Strategy? -- 9. The Strategic Unwisdom of the Ancients -- 10. Strategic Competence: The Historical Record -- 11. The Inevitability of Mounting Resistance -- 12. Why Current Policies Will Persist -- 13. Australia: Weaving a Coalition -- 14. Japan: Disengaging from Disengagement -- 15. Defiant Vietnam: The Newest American Ally? -- 16. South Korea: A Model Tianxia Subordinate? -- 17. Mongolia: Northern Outpost of the Coalition? -- 18. Indonesia: From Ostracism to Coalition -- 19. The Philippines: How to Make Enemies -- 20. Norway: Norway? Norway! -- 21. The Three China Policies of the United States -- 22. Conclusions and Predictions -- Appendix: The Rise and Fall of "Peaceful Rise" -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about China's own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, he argues that the world's second largest economy may be headed for a fall unless China's leaders check their military ambitions.

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