This volume discusses the origins and development of India's boundary dispute with China. It examines key issues like areas of dispute, treaties, agreements, and conventions, role of the bureaucracy, peace processes together with an analysis of earlier attempts at drawing a boun…
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three…
"Providing a new approach to understanding peace and conflict resolution in a comparative perspective, this volume will attract the attention of students and scholars of international relations, human rights, politics, and peace and security studies."--Jacket.
"In this wide-ranging study of China's boundary disputes and settlements, Eric Hyer finds China's behaviour was strategic and even demonstrated willingness to compromise. This behaviour in earlier periods is pertinent to the ongoing territorial disputes in the East and South Chi…
This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, showing how two enmities - Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani - and one friendship - Sino-Pakistani - defined the distributio.
This book takes an in-depth look at Japan's long-festering territorial and maritime disputes with its three neighbors, China, South Korea and the Russian Federation. Japan has established friendly relations with all three former adversaries since the end of World War II, but the…
