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What explains the twists and turns in US-China relations since Nixon initiated a policy of engagement in the early 1970s? Jean Garrison examines the politics behind US-China policy from Nixon to George W. Bush, and finds that a focus on the internal decisionmaking process is key to understanding both continuity and change in US-China relations.

Why does China act as it does in its pursuit of energy security? Are "resource wars” inevitable? Going beyond traditional analyses that focus on China as a regional and global threat, Jean Garrison sheds new light on the roots of the country's energy policy and the constraints that it faces. Her attention to the competing developmental and environmental priorities at play in China's domestic politics is a critical contribution to the global en...