Us Taiwan Policy: Constructing The Triangle

摘要

Fragile Relationship), Rosemary Foot (The Practice of Power), David Shambaugh and Thomas Robinson (Chinese Foreign Policy), and others. Tunsjo succeeds to a large extent. He points out that most books offering 'realist analysis' are merely based on international-relations theories of rational choice, but not on sufficient archival evidence. The kind of interest-based, balance-of-power interpretations offered in mainstream literature is not just outdated, but often misleading, as if national interests were objective, hard realities that could be studied through a method similar to that of natural science. According to the author, the traditional school asks 'why' questions, while the constructivist approach asks only 'how-possible' questions.