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Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War (New Cold War History) Hardcover – April 17, 2017

by Gregg A. Brazinsky (Author)
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Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South."

Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.
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    448 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
  4. Publication date
    April 17, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    6.12 x 1 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1469668645
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1469631707
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"Essential Reading for anyone interested in the future of U.S.-Chinese relations."-- Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs
 "... a remarkably insightful study of a critically important yet oft-ignored dimension of the global Cold War. The book in fact epitomizes the academic study of the Cold War at its best."-- Pierre Asselin, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations, San Diego State University "Thoughtful, well written, sophisticated, and truly international, Winning the Third World, stands not only as the definitive work on this aspect of Sino-American relations and a wonderful examination of the superpower struggle for Third World loyalties, but as one of the best books about American-East Asian relations in recent years."-- Mitchell B. Lerner, Passport "...an impressively researched, well written, and valuable study of Chinese American competition for influence in the Third World during the Cold War."--Warren I. Cohen, The Journal of American History"...an impressively researched and beautifully written addition to the literature on the Cold War in Asia. Brazinsky's work will stand for some time as the best window we have into the world of policymaking in Africa and Asia under Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai"--Meredith Oyen, Passport

" [an] informative and fascinating account, which is brimming with original insights and revelations."--Qiang Zhai, H-Diplo Roundtable

"...a landmark achievement in the study of Sino-American Relations."--Niu Jun, H-Diplo Roundtable

"The book is a milestone. After reading it, I felt that the winds of Cold-War historiography are beginning to change."--Sergey Radchenko, H-Diplo Roundtable

"... a comprehensive and deeply original study of the China-U.S. Cold War in Asia and Africa. ...In light of China's global rise in the twenty-first century, policymakers and scholars alike would all greatly benefit from reading this book." --Yong Deng, Diplomatic History

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Winning the Third World is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Cold War, American foreign policy, and China's foreign relations. Brazinsky's painstaking research, incisive analysis, and fluid narrative reveals the highly consequential Sino-American struggle for prestige and influence in the developing world during the first half of the Cold War.--Thomas J. Christensen, author of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1469631709
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press (April 17, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1469668645
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1469631707
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Gregg A. Brazinsky

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I research and teach about U.S.-Asian relations at The George Washington University. My work seeks to understand the diverse and multi-faceted interactions among East Asian states and between Asia and the United States. This means only formal diplomacy but also the transnational flow of culture and ideas across the Pacific and within East Asia. Proficient in both Mandarin Chinese and Korean, I have done multi-national, multi-archival research for all of my major projects. I have been especially interested in how the United States has tried to project its influence in Asia and how in turn Asians have adopted, transformed, and resisted American ideals and institutions.

My most recent book, Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War, explores the diplomatic, economic and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington in newly independent Afro-Asian countries between 1949 and 1979. The book opens a new window for understanding the Cold War by showing the pivotal importance of Sino-American competition to the conflict. Its central argument is that status was the driving force behind the long rivalry between Beijing and Washington.

I am also the author of Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. The book demonstrated how a distinctive combination of American policies and Korean agency shaped South Korea’s rapid transformation into a prosperous democracy during the Cold War. It was the first historical work to explore post-1953 U.S.-South Korean relations through analyzing the sources and perspectives of both countries. Through using an array of Korean sources that no scholar had used before, it explored how Koreans appropriated American ideas about development, modernization, and democracy.

With Asia emerging as the most important driving force behind the world economy and international politics during the twenty-first century, my work helps the academic and policy communities to better understand how the past has shaped the present.

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This is a fascinating and pioneering book on Sino-American Competition in the Third World during the Cold War. Although there have been many other books on relations between China and the United States, this is the first to look at their rivalry in Asia and Africa. It thus offers a new window into how the Cold War played out in the Global South. Brazinsky makes use of many new documents from Chinese archives that no other scholar has used before to tell this story.

The book traces Sino-American competition in the Third World between 1949 and 1979, focusing primarily on the 1950s and 1960s. Individual chapters cover the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington during this period. Brazinsky shows without question that checking Chinese ambitions in Asia and Africa was a very high priority for American officials. The book’s organization makes perfect sense and it is written with great verve.

Winning the Third World is extremely relevant to many contemporary policy issues. While most of the book does not directly address current events, it nonetheless yields great insights into China’s current efforts to strengthen its presence in the South China Sea, construct a “New Silk Road," and deepen its economic ties with Africa. It is mandatory reading for anybody with an interest in international affairs, Chinese history, or the Cold War.
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The book offers fascinating in-depth accounts of Sino-American relations that are simultaneously broad and comprehensive. The author delves into an important aspect of bilateral relations that has often been assumed and not yet been rigorously researched-- competition for prestige and status between Beijing and Washington. In covering the various contours of US-China relations leading up to normalization of diplomatic relations, the book addresses not just China's relations with the US, but with other countries like the Soviet Union, India, Cambodia, and Egypt among others. Thanks to the author's use of both Chinese and American archives, the book also contains interesting episodes and communications that happened in the Cold War diplomacy.

Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in understanding Chinese foreign policymaking better. The book offers an important window into how Chinese leaders viewed the world and why they pursued specific, sometimes seemingly puzzling, policies. It definitely helps make better sense of the complexities and difficulties that Washington and Beijing face today.
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