Robert S Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 740152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2195-8982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Chinese Coercion, Wedge Strategies, and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
During the Philippine presidency of Benigno Aquino III (2010–2016) and Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos, Jr. (2012), China carried out coercive diplomacy against the Philippines. Scholarship on Chinese policy focuses on the importance of Chinese sovereignty claims or Chinese domestic politics. Although the China-Philippine maritime dispute and domestic politics are important, they do not explain Chinese policy. Rather, China policy has reflected its d…
Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
China Looks at the Korean Peninsula: The ‘Two Transitions’
There are two power transitions under way on the Korean Peninsula. Firstly, there is a US–China power transition, reflecting China’s emergence as an economic and military power in Northeast Asia. This is challenging US regional dominance. The second transition reflects South Korea’s development of an independent defence capability against North Korea. A consensus has emerged among Chinese scholars and analysts in government think tanks that these…
It’s not a cold war: Competition and cooperation in US–China relations
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict
In the twenty-first century, China and Vietnam have experienced heightened conflict over their disputes in the South China Sea. But Chinese policy and the writings of Chinese observers make clear that, for China, this conflict is a struggle between a great power and its smaller neighbor over China’s demand for a sphere of influence on its borders. Since 1949, the People’s Republic of China has consistently maintained that Vietnam reject strategic…
Sino-Russian relations: The false promise of Russian balancing
On the fungibility of economic power: China’s economic rise and the East Asian security order
China is now second only to the US as a world economic power. Its economic rise has challenged US ability to fundamentally shape the world trade order. However, the importance of the rise of the Chinese economy for international security affairs is less clear. The key analytical issue for international politics and for an understanding of the sources of power is whether economic power is fungible in international security affairs, whether it can …
China, the United States and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War
The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics ra…
Debating China's Naval Nationalism
October 01 2010 Debating China's Naval Nationalism Michael A. Glosny, Michael A. Glosny Michael A. Glosny is an instructor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and was China Security Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Phillip C. Saunders, Phillip …
The Rise of Chinese Power and the Implications for the Regional Security Order
China's Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response
Recent developments in Chinese politics and defense policy indicate that China will soon embark on an ambitious maritime policy that will include construction of a power-projection navy centered on an aircraft carrier. But just as nationalism and the pursuit of status encouraged past land powers to seek great power maritime capabilities, widespread nationalism, growing social instability, and the leadership's concern for its political legitimacy …
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds by David M. Lampton
New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy
This book brings together several generations of specialists in Chinese foreign policy to present readers with current research on both new and traditional topics. The authors draw on a wide range of new materials—archives, documents, memoirs, opinion polls, and interviews—to examine traditional issues such as China's use of force from 1959 to the present, and new issues such as China's response to globalization, its participation in several inte…
Explaining Taiwan's Revisionist Diplomacy
Taiwan is a revisionist power. Its independence movement challenges a vital status-quo interest of mainland China's opposition to a de jure Taiwan declaration of independence and maintaining, however ambiguously, Taiwan's commitment to the 'one-China' formulation. Why is it that a small and vulnerable island off the coast of a great power has continued to challenge the vital interest of that great power and risk war? Adopting a 'levels of analysi…
Balance of Power Politics and the Rise of China: Accommodation and Balancing in East Asia
Realists agree that great powers balance the military power of rising powers, but there is little agreement regarding secondary-state responses to rising powers. First, there are differences regarding whether secondary states balance or accommodate rising powers. Second, there are differences among realists regarding the distinct roles of economic and military factors in secondary-state alignment policies. Third, some scholars argue that state al…
Taiwan's Fading Independence Movement
Chapter 10 Bipolarity and Balancing in East Asia
The U.S.-China Peace: Great Power Politics, Spheres of Influence, and the Peace of East Asia
East Asia in the post–Cold War era has been the world's most peaceful region. Whereas since 1989 there have been major wars in Europe, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and significant and costly civil instability in Latin America, during this same period in East Asia there have been no wars and minimal domestic turbulence. Moreover, economic growth in East Asia has been faster than in any other region in the world. East Asia seems to be t…
Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U.S.-China Relations
October 01 2002 Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U.S.-China Relations Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Associate of…
Re-Examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973
Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000
Class Acts III: Texts on South Africa
The diplomacy of tiananmen: Two‐level bargaining and great‐power cooperation
(2000). The diplomacy of tiananmen: Two‐level bargaining and great‐power cooperation. Security Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 139-178
The 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force
October 01 2000 The 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Research Associate, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Research As…
The Politics of Analyzing Social Problems
Journal Article The Politics of Analyzing Social Problems Get access Robert Ross, Robert Ross University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Graham L. Staines Graham L. Staines University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 1972, Pages 18–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/799497 Published: 07 August…
The Geography of the Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century
April 01 1999 The Geography of the Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His most recent books are Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (coauthor) (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997) and Negotiating Cooperation: U.S.-China Relations, 1969-…
China's Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response
Recent developments in Chinese politics and defense policy indicate that China will soon embark on an ambitious maritime policy that will include construction of a power-projection navy centered on an aircraft carrier. But just as nationalism and the pursuit of status encouraged past land powers to seek great power maritime capabilities, widespread nationalism, growing social instability, and the leadership's concern for its political legitimacy …
The 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force
October 01 2000 The 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Research Associate, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Research As…
Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U.S.-China Relations
October 01 2002 Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U.S.-China Relations Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert S. Ross Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Associate of…
Balance of Power Politics and the Rise of China: Accommodation and Balancing in East Asia
Realists agree that great powers balance the military power of rising powers, but there is little agreement regarding secondary-state responses to rising powers. First, there are differences regarding whether secondary states balance or accommodate rising powers. Second, there are differences among realists regarding the distinct roles of economic and military factors in secondary-state alignment policies. Third, some scholars argue that state al…
Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989
1. Introduction 2. Establishing cooperation 3. Domestic politics and strategic imagery 4. America's new strategic reality 5. Normalization of relations 6. Renegotiating US-PRC cooperation 7. Consolidation of cooperation 8. Conclusion
Beijing as a Conservative Power
The Rise of Chinese Power and the Implications for the Regional Security Order
Explaining Taiwan's Revisionist Diplomacy
Taiwan is a revisionist power. Its independence movement challenges a vital status-quo interest of mainland China's opposition to a de jure Taiwan declaration of independence and maintaining, however ambiguously, Taiwan's commitment to the 'one-China' formulation. Why is it that a small and vulnerable island off the coast of a great power has continued to challenge the vital interest of that great power and risk war? Adopting a 'levels of analysi…
The U.S.-China Peace: Great Power Politics, Spheres of Influence, and the Peace of East Asia
East Asia in the post–Cold War era has been the world's most peaceful region. Whereas since 1989 there have been major wars in Europe, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and significant and costly civil instability in Latin America, during this same period in East Asia there have been no wars and minimal domestic turbulence. Moreover, economic growth in East Asia has been faster than in any other region in the world. East Asia seems to be t…
The Third House: Conference Committees in the United States Congress
Taiwan's Fading Independence Movement
Enter the Dragon
The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics ra…
The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949
Journal Article The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949 Get access The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949. By Rosemary Foot. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 291pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 19 827878 0. Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross 1Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.…
International Bargaining and Domestic Politics: U.S.-China Relations since 1972
The concepts of triangular structure and pattern of relations are useful in understanding conflict in U.S.-China relations, particularly over Taiwan, and in explaining the context in which Chinese domestic politics influences the P.R.C.'s policy toward the United States. Through their influence on relative bargaining strengths, shifting patterns of relations have determined Beijing's readiness either to push for change in U.S.-Taiwan relations or…
Debating China's Naval Nationalism
October 01 2010 Debating China's Naval Nationalism Michael A. Glosny, Michael A. Glosny Michael A. Glosny is an instructor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and was China Security Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Phillip C. Saunders, Phillip …
Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict
In the twenty-first century, China and Vietnam have experienced heightened conflict over their disputes in the South China Sea. But Chinese policy and the writings of Chinese observers make clear that, for China, this conflict is a struggle between a great power and its smaller neighbor over China’s demand for a sphere of influence on its borders. Since 1949, the People’s Republic of China has consistently maintained that Vietnam reject strategic…
Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989
Journal Article Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989. By Robert S. Ross. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. xiv, 349 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-2453-9.) Get access Robert Accinelli Robert Accinelli University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1498–1499, https://doi.org/10.2307/29530…
Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment
This highly readable book makes a strong case that a Washington establishment does exist and that members of Congress are responsible for it. Fiorina's description of the self-serving interconnections that have developed between Congress, bureaucrats, and citizens with special interests leads to provocative and disturbing conclusions about the way our political system works. First published in 1977, this greatly enlarged second edition discusses …
Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power
Engaging China looks at the responses of major international powers to the recent economic growth of China. Case studies from the United States, Japan, Singapore, and other countries, illustrate China's developing position in the Asia-Pacific
Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power
Engaging China looks at the responses of major international powers to the recent economic growth of China. Case studies from the United States, Japan, Singapore, and other countries, illustrate China's developing position in the Asia-Pacific
President and Congress: Power and Policy
Public Choice and Public Policy: Seven Cases in American Government
The Politics of Analyzing Social Problems
Journal Article The Politics of Analyzing Social Problems Get access Robert Ross, Robert Ross University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Graham L. Staines Graham L. Staines University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 1972, Pages 18–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/799497 Published: 07 August…
The Third House: Conference Committees in the United States Congress
Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment
This highly readable book makes a strong case that a Washington establishment does exist and that members of Congress are responsible for it. Fiorina's description of the self-serving interconnections that have developed between Congress, bureaucrats, and citizens with special interests leads to provocative and disturbing conclusions about the way our political system works. First published in 1977, this greatly enlarged second edition discusses …
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800
Adam Jones, From Slaves to Palm Kernels: A History of the Galinhas Country (West Africa) 1730–1890, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983, Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Institut an der Johan Wolfga…
Adam Jones, From Slaves to Palm Kernels: A History of the Galinhas Country (West Africa) 1730–1890, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983, Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Institut an der Johan Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt/Main, Studien zur Kulturkunde, Vol. 68, Dm. 68, =. - Volume 8 Issue 1
In Search of Theory in School Finance Elections: A Critique of Cataldo and Holm
IN AN ARTICLE appearing in these pages in December 1983, Everett F. Cataldo and John D. Holm present evidence on Voting on School Finances: A Test of Competing Theories. Their case study of an election in Cleveland, Ohio, seeks to contribute to an understanding of voting behavior by analyzing combined effects of socioeconomic/attitudinal variables and community factors on voting. They contend that other studies focus on one or other; what is need…
In Search of Theory in School Finance Elections: A Critique of Cataldo and Holm
Black Politics in South Africa since 1945
International Bargaining and Domestic Politics: U.S.-China Relations since 1972
The concepts of triangular structure and pattern of relations are useful in understanding conflict in U.S.-China relations, particularly over Taiwan, and in explaining the context in which Chinese domestic politics influences the P.R.C.'s policy toward the United States. Through their influence on relative bargaining strengths, shifting patterns of relations have determined Beijing's readiness either to push for change in U.S.-Taiwan relations or…
The Making of Foreign Policy in China. Structure and Process
The Indochina Tangle: China's Vietnam Policy, 1975-1979
From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China's U.S. Policy
In the field of Chinese foreign policy, the debate continues over the importance of domestic and international factors in policy–making. Scholars arguing in favour of the special importance of domestic politics in the formulation of policy point to the existence of elite differences over foreign policy and contend that the shifting fortunes of individual leaders and the leadership turnover associated with succession politics can significantly sha…
China ́s Strategic View of Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition
China and the Cambodian Peace Process: The Value of Coercive Diplomacy
Since Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in December 1.978, China has consistently pursued three interrelated objectives for Indochina. First, it sought a significant reduction of the Soviet presence in the region, thereby reversing the trend of Soviet encirclement in the 1970s. Second, it sought Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia and thus diminished Vietnamese power on China's southern periphery, reduced opportunity for an outside po…
China and Post-Cambodia Southeast Asia: Coping with Success
Throughout the 1980s China's Asia policy aimed to roll back Vietnamese expansionism in Cambodia. Due to the complementarity of Beijing's objective with the interests of the non-Communist Southeast Asian states, it was relatively easy for Beijing to develop cooperative relations with these states. Yet the very success of Chinese diplomacy in the 1980s has undermined Beijing's ability to maintain its regional influence in the 1990s. Now that the st…
The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and compromise
China, the United States and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War
This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology
The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949
Journal Article The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949 Get access The practice of power: US relations with China since 1949. By Rosemary Foot. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 291pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 19 827878 0. Robert S. Ross Robert S. Ross 1Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.…
Enter the Dragon
East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order
Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989
1. Introduction 2. Establishing cooperation 3. Domestic politics and strategic imagery 4. America's new strategic reality 5. Normalization of relations 6. Renegotiating US-PRC cooperation 7. Consolidation of cooperation 8. Conclusion
Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Sergei N. Goncharov , John W. Lewis , Xue Litai
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