United States-Taiwan Security Ties: From Cold War to Beyond Containment

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This book is an introductory study of the complex security relationship that exists between the United States and Taiwan. It explains how U.S. security policy toward Taiwan has been steered primarily by Cold War calculations and how the U.S. has sought to respond creatively to the constraints on military support for Taiwan imposed by the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China. Hickey suggests that, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the time has arrived for adjustments in the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. These modifications should not, however, include a change in American security policy, which should continue to serve U.S. interests in the post-Cold War environment.

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"Hickey's work is an important contribution to understanding U.S.-Taiwan relations and American security policy toward Taiwan and Asia in the post-Cold War period. He provides a penetrating assessment of the essential factors affecting U.S.-Taiwan relations, a relationship that relates intimately to U.S.-China relations and the future strategy of America in Asia."-John F. Copper The Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies Rhodes College
.,."this book is very well researched and well argued, and essential reading for anyone interested in Taiwan and/or U.S. defense policy."-The International History Review
...this book is very well researched and well argued, and essential reading for anyone interested in Taiwan and/or U.S. defense policy.-The International History Review
..."this book is very well researched and well argued, and essential reading for anyone interested in Taiwan and/or U.S. defense policy."-The International History Review

Author Bio

DENNIS VAN VRANKEN HICKEY is a Foreign Policy Analyst and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southwest Missouri State University. He has lived and taught in the People's Republic of China, and his writings have appeared in publications such as Asian Affairs, Orbis, Asian Survey, and Pacific Review.