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Back Nathan Leites and China: A Sourcebook of Research by Leites and Some Applications

Fiscal Year 2013
Division Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department Defense Resources Management Institute
Investigator(s) Augier, Mie-Sophia E.
Sponsor Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD)
Summary There is a growing agreement among senior U.S. civilian and military officials who have been involved in formulating or implementing national security and military strategies and policies relating to China that, overall, China is becoming an increasingly important player on the global national-security scene. Publicly available U.S. national-security documents, including from the U.S.-China commission, have pointed to the potential challenges with the rise of China as an important player and the need for a better understanding of them, their behaviours, decision making processes, etc.
The Office of Net Assessment has done some important work in advancing our knowledge of China over the past few decades. This project will contribute to this knowledge by focusing on work by Nathan Leites. In particular, the project aims to put together a source book based on Leites notes for a book on China he was working on. This will be useful both for understanding some of the pre-history of the intellectual history of the Office of Net Assessment's current China research; but also in itself as a valuable collection of material on themes important to understanding the decision making and behaviours of China today.
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