This book analyses international relations between the USA, China, and Russia and provides an overview of how the US-China-Russia triangle has evolved over time. Based on a forensic examination of primary documentation from US archives, the author illustrates how the US strategic perspectives on Chinese-Russian relations have developed since the late-19th century. The author demonstrates how US relations with the Russian and Chinese empires began expanding into greater sophistication and complexity in the 19th century, reflecting changing US concerns, priorities, and preferences vis-à-vis Sino-Russian dynamics which themselves, too, were evolving in parallel and, in some instances, in an interactive fashion. The book analyses US perceptions of Sino-Russian interactions in ways which, from the US perspective, affected US interests, either positively or negatively.

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S. Mahmud Ali studied at the Pakistan Military Academy, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI), and King's College London. After working for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a broadcast journalist, an analyst, and an editor for two decades, he was appointed as East Asia International Affairs Programme Associate at the LSE IDEAS. Currently an Associate Fellow at the Institute of China Studies in Kuala Lumpur, he has authored 10 books including a seven-volume series on US-Chinese strategic insecurity dynamics from 1942 to 2019.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: A New Cold War? The US-China-Russia Strategic Triangle.- Chapter 2. Triangular Dynamics in the Imperial Era.- Chapter 3. The Triad Confronts Republican Turbulence.- Chapter 4. The Triangle in World War and its Wake.- Chapter 5. The Cold War's 'First Strategic Triangle'.- Chapter 6. Systemic Transitional Fluidity and Displacement Angst.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Post-Unipolar Triadic Turbulence