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M. Taylor Fravel
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 47
Citations - 1735
M. Taylor Fravel is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Military strategy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1607 citations. Previous affiliations of M. Taylor Fravel include Stanford University & United States Institute of Peace.
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China's New Diplomacy
TL;DR: The recent crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons has had at least one unexpected aspect: the crucial -- and highly effective -- intervention of Beijing as discussed by the authors, which is a sign of how much things have changed in the country, which has long avoided most international affairs.
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Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes
TL;DR: This paper argued that state leaders are more likely to compromise in territorial disputes when confronting internal threats to regime security, including rebellions and legitimacy crises, and that regime insecurity best explains China's pattern of compromise and delay in its territorial disputes, including the revolt in Tibet, the instability following the Great Leap Forward, the legitimacy crisis after the Tiananmen upheaval and separatist violence in Xinjiang.
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China's Strategy in the South China Sea
TL;DR: The authors examines China's behaviour in the South China Sea disputes through the lens of its strategy for managing its claims and concludes that although China's strategy seeks to consolidate its own claims, it threatens weaker states in the dispute and is inherently destabilizing.
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Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes
TL;DR: The history of China's territorial disputes can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss cooperation and escalation in frontier disputes in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s.
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China's Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure
TL;DR: For example, this article argued that China did not develop sufficient forces or doctrine to overcome its vulnerability to a first strike by the United States or the Soviet Union for more than three decades.