Brantly Womack

Biographic Data

ID537858
NAMEBrantly Womack
GIVEN NAMESBrantly
FAMILY NAMEWomack
SIGNATUREWOMACK B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
ORCID0000-0002-4874-5875
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS110
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Contra Schelling: The trap of Coercive Strategy in a Multinodal Era

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2025References: 10

    Thomas Schelling’s 1966 classic, Arms and Influence , became one of the major strategic works of the Cold War, and it remains the clearest argument for the implicit logic of American and Russian coercive forms of diplomacy. Schelling is incisive about the credibility of deterrence, but the credibility of leadership is reduced to the Cold War assumption that power is decisive. While the rise of China and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have rekindled …

  • A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China

    Brantly WomackARTICLEJournal of Contemporary China2021

    Throughout the CPC’s first century, its perception of global dynamics and its understanding of China’s own situation and interests have been bound together in fundamental interaction. Confucian dialectics is used to analyze the changing relationship of domestic and international aspects of CPC ideology. There was never a moment when both sides of the dialectic were not present, and never a decision taken that did not affect the balance and transf…

  • The Foundations of Mao Zedong's Political Thought, 1917–1935

    Brantly WomackBOOKFoundations of Mao Zedong's…2019

    Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  • Jawing through Crises: Chinese and Vietnamese Media Strategies in the South China Sea

    Frances Yaping Wang, Brantly WomackARTICLEJournal of Contemporary China2019Cited by: 8

    Winston Churchill once said, ‘it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.’ However, negotiations are particularly difficult when they are enmeshed in public opinion precommitments. The sharpest crisis between China and Vietnam in the last 30 years concerned the placement of a Chinese oil rig into contested waters in 2014. This study analyses the Chinese and Vietnamese propaganda efforts surrounding the crisis as examples of the instrumental use of p…

  • International Crises and China's Rise: Comparing the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2017 Global Political Crisis

    Brantly WomackARTICLEThe Chinese Journal of…2017

    The profound political uncertainties in international politics created by developments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Korea (DPRK) are similar in some respects to the economic uncertainties created by the global financial crisis of 2008. In both crises there is a sudden and general awareness of vulnerability, and it is unclear how long the current uncertainty will last. With the election of Donald Trump, the United State…

  • Xi Jinping and Continuing Political Reform in China

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEJournal of Chinese Political…2017Cited by: 3References: 7

  • Not merely a border: Borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia

    Y W Chan, Brantly WomackARTICLEAsian Anthropology2016

  • Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world

    Brantly WomackARTICLEAsian Anthropology2016

    The diversity of borderland realities makes the necessity of general conceptualization particularly challenging. An interrelated conceptual triad is proposed and then applied to the experience of Quemoy Island (金门, Kinmen, Jinmen) from 1895 to the present. All borderlands are places in which contact is shaped by a standing and distinctive disparity, and the boundaries that both define and split the area create the rules of border gaming and the l…

  • Asymmetric parity: US-China relations in a multinodal world

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEInternational Affairs2016Cited by: 1

    The period 2008 to 2015 is likely to prove a traumatic transition from the post-Cold War era of American unipolar hegemony to a new status quo of asymmetric parity between the US and China. With approximately equal masses of production and one third of the world's total, the relationship of the United States and China will remain the focus of global politics for the foreseeable future. While parity in economic mass makes each the greatest concern…

  • Asymmetry and International Relationships

    Open AccessBrantly WomackBOOKAsymmetry and International…2015

    Power is real, but it does not always prevail. This book explores how disparity structures international relationships. Beginning at the bilateral level, the relationship between the smaller side and the larger side can be normal as long as the smaller does not feel threatened and the larger can assume that its capabilities are respected. However, the smaller can be tempted to brinksmanship, while the larger can be tempted to bully. Asymmetric co…

  • China and the Future Status Quo

    Brantly WomackARTICLEThe Chinese Journal of…2015Cited by: 4

    Although China’s underlying capabilities have developed at a fairly steady pace over the past 20 years and its ambitions have remained relatively stable, the shock of uncertainty and relative change since 2008 has driven an ongoing interaction between heightened international anxiety over China’s rise and greater assertiveness on China’s part. In academic circles, the question is raised whether China is a status quo power willing to be a stakehol…

  • Northeast Asia in a Multinodal World

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEEast Asia2014References: 3

  • Distortion and Credibility within China's Internal Information System

    Kezhou Xiao, Brantly WomackARTICLEJournal of Contemporary China2014

    Behind the problems of credibility of public official information in China lie two patterns of internal information distortion, one restricting the downward flow of sensitive general information and the other filtering the upward flow of local information. Information gathered at the center is increasingly restricted as it is transmitted down the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the ‘facts on the ground’ are sifted by local official interests at each leve…

  • China's Future in a Multinodal World Order

    Brantly WomackARTICLEPacific Affairs2014Cited by: 1

  • Beyond win-win: Rethinking China's international relationships in an era of economic uncertainty

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEInternational Affairs2013Cited by: 1

    China is the least disadvantaged major economy in the current era of global economic uncertainty. Thus it is becoming the focus of attention of its neighbours and is achieving a prominence in the world political economy unparalleled in its modern history. To a great extent, China's success is the result of ‘good neighbour diplomacy’ such as ‘win–win’ and the policies of reform and openness of the past thirty years. However, despite continuity in …

  • Asymmetry and China's Tributary System

    Brantly WomackARTICLEThe Chinese Journal of…2012Cited by: 8

    Journal Article Asymmetry and China's Tributary System Get access Brantly Womack Brantly Womack * *Corresponding author: Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2012, Pages 37–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/pos003 Published: 20 February 2012

  • Moderniser le parti-État en Chine et au Vietnam

    Brantly WomackARTICLERevue internationale de politique…2011References: 1

    Il y a d’importantes différences dans la situation et le développement politique entre la Chine et le Vietnam, mais tous les deux sont si distants du modèle parlementaire qu’ils apparaissent comme tout à fait similaires pour la science politique. Ils sont les robustes survivants des partis-États dans un monde-postcommuniste. La Chine et le Vietnam posent un défi réciproque aux attentes communes concernant la modernisation. D’un côté, leur croissa…

  • The Spratlys: From Dangerous Ground to Apple of Discord

    Brantly WomackARTICLEContemporary Southeast Asia2011Cited by: 3

    Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…

  • China Among Unequals: Asymmetric Foreign Relationships in Asia

    Brantly WomackBOOKChina among unequals2010

  • From Urban Radical to Rural Revolutionary: Mao From the 1920s to 1937

    Open AccessBrantly WomackCHAPTERCritical Introduction to Mao2010

    This chapter begins the narrative of Mao Zedong's political career and covers the first half of his long life. At the end of the period covered by this chapter, Mao had become the leader of the remnants of a party that had just survived its second virtual extermination and had to adjust to the new environment and people of northwest China, as well as to the new threat of Japan. It might seem, therefore, that the “early Mao” would be interesting o…

  • China among Unequals: Asymmetric Foreign Relationships in Asia

    Brantly WomackBOOKChina among Unequals2010

  • China's Rise in Historical Perspective

    Brantly WomackBOOKChina's Rise in Historical…2010

    China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, developing country—but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers China from a historical perspective to chart its current…

  • China and Vietnam: Managing an Asymmetric Relationship in an Era of Economic Uncertainty

    Open AccessBrantly WomackARTICLEAsian Politics & Policy2010References: 5

    The financial crisis of 2008 has ushered in an era of uncertainty that is redefining the post–Cold War world. While the United States, as a global actor, focuses on systemic effects, every international relationship is affected by the need for caution and by changes in relative position. China and Vietnam have always had an asymmetric relationship, but the gap has grown with China's strong recovery and increased regional and global presence. Both…

  • Democracy Is a Good Thing: Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China . Yu Keping Globalization and Changes in China's Governance . Yu Keping

    Brantly WomackARTICLEThe China Journal2009

  • China between Region and World

    Brantly WomackARTICLEThe China Journal2009Cited by: 4