Strategy Application

Choose one of the following 3 topics. Your paper should be a case study, 6-10 pages, of
the application of the strategy listed for each topic. The paper should address the following
questions. What were the key events? How was the strategy applied? Were the conditions
favoring the strategy present? Why did it succeed or fail?
All essays must be submitted through the class website using TurnItIn
Appeasement
Britain and the United States 1895-1904
Coercive Diplomacy
Taiwan Strait Crisis, China toward Taiwan, U.S. toward China 1995-96
War Termination
Vietnam 1972-1973
Sources:
Include citations and bibliography using either footnotes/endnotes or author/date, as in
Kate Turabian’s published manual or the Chicago Manual of Style, https://
www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.

Use a variety of sources, for example, books, journal articles, magazine articles, and
newspaper articles. You should consult at least 5 sources, of which 3 are scholarly (books and
journal articles). Do not cite or rely on Wikipedia!
To help you get started, I have listed some sources for each topic.
Suggested Reading:
Appeasement
Stephen R. Rock, “Great Britain and the United States, 1895-1905,” in Why Peace Breaks Out
(1989).
Stephen R. Rock, “British Appeasement of the United States, 1896-1903,” in Appeasement in
International Politics (2000), 25-48.
Kathleen M. Burk, Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America (New York: Little
Brown, 2007).
Charles A. Kupchan, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2010), 73-111.
Bradford Perkins, The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895-1914 (New
York: Atheneum, 1968).
Coercive Diplomacy
Robert Ross, “The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of
Force,” International Security 25, no. 2 (2000): 87-123.
Andrew Scobell, “Show of Force: Chinese Soldiers, Statesmen, and the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait
Crisis,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 115 (2000), 227-46.
Roy Pinsker, “Drawing a Line in the Taiwan Strait: ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ and its Discontents,”
Australian Journal of International Affairs 57 (2003): 353-68.
Alan D. Romberg, Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice (2003), pp. 155-85, www.stimson.org
James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon
to Clinton (New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 315-38.
War Termination
Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (1998).
George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam (1996), 243-99.
Henry Kissinger, Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and
Extrication from the Vietnam War (2003).
Jussi Hanhimaki, “Selling the ‘Decent Interval’: Kissinger, Triangular Diplomacy, and the end of
the Vietnam War, 1971-73,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 14 (2003): 159-94.
Pierre Asselin, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Larry Berman, No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam (New York: Free
Press, 2001)