John Garver
Professor Emeritus
Member Of:
- Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
- Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy
Office Location: Habersham 140
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Email Address: john.garver@inta.gatech.edu
Overview
Dr. John W. Garver is Emertius Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in China’s foreign relations. He served for many years on a the editorial boards of the journals China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Issues and Studies, and Asian Security. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, has testified before the U.S. Congress, and is the author of twelve books and seventy–five refereed articles and book chapters dealing with China 's foreign relations. His books include: China and Iran; Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World, Protracted Contest, China-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century and Face Off; China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization,, The Sino-American Alliance; Nationalist China and U.S. Cold War Strategy in Asia, ,Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China, Chinese-Soviet Relations 1037-1945, The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism, and China's Decision for Rapprochement with the United States). In 2016 Oxford University Press published his comprehensive history of PRC foreign relations: China’s Quest; The History of the Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China.
Garver set up and directed for many years two overseas programs: one in the 1990s, based in China and focusing on China’s transition from a planned to a market economy; the other based in several East Asian countries and comparing the developmental process in these countries. He also worked for many years with the China Program of Carleton College. Further information is available at: www.chinacenter.net/team/john-garver/
Courses
- INTA-2100: Great Power Relations
- INTA-2210: Pol Phil & Ideologies
- INTA-3130: Foreign Policy of China
- INTA-4500: INTA Pro-Seminar
- INTA-4815: Special Topics
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
- China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China
Date: 2016
- Taiwan’s democracy: Economic and political challenges
Date: 2013
© 2011 Editorial selection and matter, Robert Ash, John W. Garver and Penelope B. Prime.Taiwan's rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next decade Taiwan's “political miracle” matched its earlier “economic miracle” creating a vibrant liberal democracy complete with freedom of speech, association and assembly, rule of law, and competitive and fair multi-party elections. The continuation of these achievements and the new challenges that have surfaced are addressed in rich detail in the chapters of this volume by an international team of experts. One of the biggest such challenges is Mainland China's economic success, which has added to the complexity of Taiwan's economic and political policy options. A number of the contributors to this volume consider Taiwan's response to China's economic rise and show how Taiwanese companies have strategically taken advantage of the changing economic environment by moving up the value chain of production within Taiwan while also taking the opportunity to invest overseas.With chapters covering a wealth of topics including:• Constitutional reform• National identity• Party politics• Taiwan's development model• Industrial policy• Trade and investment• Globalization• Sustainable development.Taiwan's Democracy will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese politics and economics, international politics and economics, and development studies.
Journal Articles
- China and a U.S.-Iran War
In: China currents
Date: November 2012
- The Diplomacy of a Rising China in South Asia
In: Orbis
Date: June 2012
The author argues that U.S. interest in Asia traditionally has been maintaining the balance of power to prevent the rise of any regional hegemony. Yet against this anti-hegemony objective is balanced an attempt to accommodate China. If China keeps this commitment, the United States will welcome the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that cooperates with America to address common challenges and mutual interests. © 2012.
Chapters
- The emerging international China-India division of labour and India’s quest for status parity and security with China
Date: 2014
All Publications
Books
- China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China
Date: 2016
- Taiwan’s democracy: Economic and political challenges
Date: 2013
© 2011 Editorial selection and matter, Robert Ash, John W. Garver and Penelope B. Prime.Taiwan's rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next decade Taiwan's “political miracle” matched its earlier “economic miracle” creating a vibrant liberal democracy complete with freedom of speech, association and assembly, rule of law, and competitive and fair multi-party elections. The continuation of these achievements and the new challenges that have surfaced are addressed in rich detail in the chapters of this volume by an international team of experts. One of the biggest such challenges is Mainland China's economic success, which has added to the complexity of Taiwan's economic and political policy options. A number of the contributors to this volume consider Taiwan's response to China's economic rise and show how Taiwanese companies have strategically taken advantage of the changing economic environment by moving up the value chain of production within Taiwan while also taking the opportunity to invest overseas.With chapters covering a wealth of topics including:• Constitutional reform• National identity• Party politics• Taiwan's development model• Industrial policy• Trade and investment• Globalization• Sustainable development.Taiwan's Democracy will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese politics and economics, international politics and economics, and development studies. - China and Iran, Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World
- China's Decision for Rapprochement with the United States, 1968 1971
- Chinese Soviet Relations During the Sino Japanese War, 1937 1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism
- Face Off; China, the United States and Taiwan's Democratization
- Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China
- Moving (Slightly) Closer to Iran; China’s Shifting Calculus for Managing Its ‘Persian gulf Dilemma’
- Organizational Capabilities of the Chinese PLA
- The China_India-U.S.Triangle: Strategic Relations in the Post-Cold War Era, NBR Analysis,
- The Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century
- The Sino-American Alliance; Nationalist China and United States Cold War Strategy in Asia,
- The Vital Triangle; China, the United States, and the Middle East
Journal Articles
- China and a U.S.-Iran War
In: China currents
Date: November 2012
- The Diplomacy of a Rising China in South Asia
In: Orbis
Date: June 2012
The author argues that U.S. interest in Asia traditionally has been maintaining the balance of power to prevent the rise of any regional hegemony. Yet against this anti-hegemony objective is balanced an attempt to accommodate China. If China keeps this commitment, the United States will welcome the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that cooperates with America to address common challenges and mutual interests. © 2012. - “The Appearance of the ‘China Factor’ in Russo-American Relations in the early 1970s”
In: Far Eastern Affairs [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2012
Garver, J.W., “The Appearance of the ‘China Factor’ in Russo-American Relations in the early 1970s,” in “Problemy Dal'nego Vostoka (Far Eastern Affairs), May 2012. - Preface
In: Digital Identity and Access Management: Technologies and Frameworks
Date: December 2011
- “The Unresolved Sino-Indian Border Dispute: An Interpretation”
In: China Report: a journal of East Asian studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2011
- Is China playing a dual game in Iran?
In: Washington Quarterly
Date: February 2011
- China's anti-encirclement struggle
In: Asian Security
Date: September 2010
Confronted during the first decade of the twenty-first century with the rapidly burgeoning US-Indian security partnership and then by the emergence of the India-Japan security relationship, Beijing struggled to respond. After initially attempting to court India away from a too-close partnership with the United States in the first half of the decade, Beijing shifted to a more coercive approach around the end of 2005. One key mechanism used to pressure India was psychological war waged via the Internet raising the possibility of another Sino-Indian war. As China shifted from a soft to a hard-line approach toward India, policy toward Japan was moving in the opposite direction. After keeping relations with Japan in the freezer during the early part of the decade, around 2006, Beijing shifted gear and adopted a much more conciliatory approach. The authors hypothesize that these simultaneous shifts in Sino-Indian and Sino-Japanese relations were not coincidence but predicated instead on an understanding that simultaneous efforts to pressure Japan and India could drive those countries further together. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. - The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: September 2010
- “India’s Cultural and Territorial Concerns with China, “
Date: 2010
- “China and the 2009 Round of the Iran Nuclear Question”,
Date: October 2009
- “China and the 2009 Round of the Iran Nuclear Question”,
Date: October 2009
- Moving (Slightly) Closer to Iran; China’s Shifting Calculus for Managing Its ‘Persian gulf Dilemma
Date: October 2009
- ”Time for China to Act Responsibly on Iran"
In: Far Eastern Economic Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2008
- “India and Sino-Nepali Relations”
Date: May 2008
- “Can China Mediate US-Iran Relations?”
In: China Currents
Date: 2007
- “China’s Rise: Becoming ‘Rich and Strong,’”
Date: 2007
- “PRC-US Strategic Cooperation in the Persian Gulf: Is It Possible?”
Date: September 2006
- Development of China's overland transportation links with Central, South-west and South Asia
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 2006
- China's influence in central and south Asia: Is it increasing?
Date: January 2006
- “President Hu Jintao’s Visit to Washington”
In: China Currents
Date: 2006
- “Iran-China relations: Ancient Partners building a Post-Imperial World”
Date: July 2005
- "Interpreting China's Grand Strategy"
In: China Brief
Date: July 2005
- "China and Its Neighbors: Russia, Japan, and India"
Date: 2005
- “China’s Probable role in Central and South Asia”
Date: 2005
- “India, China, the United States, Tibet, and the Origins of the 1962 War”
Date: April 2004
- Taiwan’s Presidential Elections
Date: March 2004
- China's Kashmir Policies
In: India Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2004
- Japan and greater China: Political economy and military power in the Asian century
In: CHINA JOURNAL
Date: 2004
- Review article: Mao's Soviet policies
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 2003
- The opportunity costs of Mao's foreign policy choices
In: CHINA JOURNAL
Date: 2003
- Asymmetrical Indian and Chinese threat perceptions
In: Journal of Strategic Studies
Date: December 2002
India tends to be deeply apprehensive of threats from China, while China appears comparatively unconcerned about threats from India, and finds it difficult to understand why India might perceive China as a threat. Two explanations of this asymmetry are (1) a deliberate and systematic understatement of Chinese concerns about India, resulting from the mobilization function of China's public media, and (2) the greater effectiveness of China's application of power over the past 50 years. - "Remembering the 1962 India-China Conflict; Could it Happen Again?"
Date: November 2002
- "The Security Dilemma in Sino-Indian relations"
Date: October 2002
- Same bed, different dreams: Managing US-China relations, 1989-2000
In: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Date: 2002
- Sino-American relations in 2001 - The difficult accommodation of two great powers
In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Date: 2002
- Limited adversaries: Post-Cold War Sino-American mutual images.
In: AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Date: December 2001
- The restoration of Sino-Indian comity following India's nuclear tests
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: December 2001
- "Security Dimensions of the India-China Territorial Dispute"
Date: 2001
- More from the "say no club"
In: CHINA JOURNAL
Date: 2001
- “More From the ‘Say No Club’”
In: The China Journal
Date: 2001
- China's strategic modernization: Implications for the United States.
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: June 2000
- Red dragon rising: Communist China's military threat to America.
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: June 2000
- The United States and a rising China: Strategic and military implications.
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: June 2000
- “Sino-American Relations”
Date: 2000
- Battling western imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States.
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1999
- “Forward”
Date: 1999
- The Atlanta Communiqué on China, The Final Report of the Southeast Regional American Assembly on U.S.-China Relations
Date: February 1998
- "China As Number One”
In: The China Journal
Date: 1998
- China's grand strategy: A blueprint for World Leadership
In: CHINA JOURNAL
Date: 1998
- Great wall, empty fortress: China's search for security
In: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Date: 1998
- Mao's military romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-1953.
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: September 1997
- Interpreting Chinese foreign policy: The micro-macro linkage approach - Zhao,QS
In: CHINA JOURNAL
Date: July 1997
- War and peace with China: First hand experiences in the foreign services of the United States - Green,M, Holdridge,JH, Stokes,WN
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: September 1996
- Will China Be Another Germany?
Date: April 1996
- Sino-Indian rapprochement and the Sino-Pakistan entente
In: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Date: 1996
- China's road to the Korean War: The making of the Sino-American confrontation - Jian,C
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: December 1995
- Taiwan, China, and the United States; the question of Taiwan membership in the United Nations
Date: September 1995
- THE STRANGE CONNECTION - US INTERVENTION IN CHINA, 1944-1972 - ALEXANDER,B
In: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE AFFAIRS
Date: 1995
- UNCERTAIN PARTNERS - STALIN, MAO, AND THE KOREAN-WAR - GONCHAROV,S, LEWIS,JW, LITAI,X
In: JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Date: November 1994
- DETERRENCE AND STRATEGIC CULTURE - CHINESE-AMERICAN CONFRONTATIONS, 1949-1958 - ZHANG,SG
In: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE AFFAIRS
Date: July 1994
- SINO-SOVIET NORMALIZATION AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS, 1945-1990 - DITTMER,L
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1993
- THE CHINESE COMMUNIST-PARTY AND THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET COMMUNISM
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1993
- CHINA PUSH THROUGH THE SOUTH CHINA SEA - THE INTERACTION OF BUREAUCRATIC AND NATIONAL INTERESTS
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: December 1992
- INDIA AND THE CHINA CRISIS - HOFFMAN,SA
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1992
- MAO, THE COMINTERN AND THE 2ND UNITED FRONT - COMMENT
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1992
- CHINA AND SOUTH-ASIA
In: ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Date: 1992
- CHINA-INDIA RIVALRY IN NEPAL - THE CLASH OVER CHINESE ARMS SALES
In: ASIAN SURVEY
Date: October 1991
- CHINESE FOREIGN-POLICY - THE DIPLOMACY OF DAMAGE CONTROL
In: CURRENT HISTORY
Date: September 1991
- "The Soviet Union and the Xi'an Incident"
In: Australian journal of chinese Affairs [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 1991
- THE INDIAN FACTOR IN RECENT SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1991
- New Light on Sino-Soviet Relations: the Memoir of China's Ambassador to Moscow, 1955-1962
In: China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 1990
- "The 'New Type' of Sino-Soviet Relations"
In: Asian Survey: a monthly review of contemporary Asian affairs [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 1989
- THE UNITED-STATES AND CHINA - JIANG,AX
In: AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Date: September 1989
- CRACKING THE MONOLITH - UNITED-STATES-POLICY AGAINST THE SINO-SOVIET ALLIANCE, 1949-1955 - MAYERS,DA
In: JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Date: November 1988
- "The Development Imperative and Beijing's Triangular Policy: Toward Equidistance"
In: Issues and Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 1988
- PEKING SOVIET AND AMERICAN-POLICIES - TOWARD EQUIDISTANCE
In: ISSUES & STUDIES
Date: October 1988
- THE ORIGINS OF THE 2ND UNITED FRONT - THE COMINTERN AND THE CHINESE-COMMUNIST PARTY
In: CHINA QUARTERLY
Date: March 1988
- The Origins of the Second United Front: The Comintern and the Chinese Communist Party
In: China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 1988
- GETTING TO MARS
In: ORBIS-A JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS
Date: 1988
- POLICY TOWARD CHINA
In: ORBIS-A JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS
Date: 1988
- "Indian-Chinese Rivalry in Indochina"
In: Asian Survey: a monthly review of contemporary Asian affairs [Peer Reviewed]
Date: November 1987
- CHINA, TAIWAN, AND THE OFFSHORE ISLANDS - STOLPER,TE
In: JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Date: November 1987
- CHIANG,KAI,SHEK QUEST FOR SOVIET ENTRY INTO THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR
In: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Date: 1987
- "China's Response to the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative"
Date: November 1986
- The Taiwan Question in Sino U.S. Relations: The Confrontation Over U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan
In: Orbis [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1983
- The Sino Soviet Territorial Dispute in the Pamirs
In: China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 1981
- "Sino Soviet Relations in 1970: The Tilt Toward the Soviet Union"
In: China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 1980
- "Taiwan's Russian Option: Image and Reality"
In: Asian Survey [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 1978
- "China, German Reunification and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence"
- "Polemics, Paradigms, Responsibility, and the Origins of the U.S.-PRC Confrontation in the 1950s"
- "Policy Toward China"
In: Orbis [Peer Reviewed]
- "Sino Vietnamese Conflict and Sino American Rapprochement"
In: Political Science Quarterly: the journal of public and international affairs [Peer Reviewed]
- "The (former) Coming War with America"
- Food for Thought; Reflections on Food Aid and the Idea of Another Lost Chance in Sino-American Relations
- Little Chance
- The East Moves West; India, China and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East
- The Origins of the Sino-American Confrontation: Two Views,
- “China and Iran: Cautious Friendship with America’s Rival”
Garver, J.W, “China and Iran: Cautious Friendship with America’s Rival,” Special edition of China Report, (New Delhi), forthcoming.
- “China and the Iran Nuclear Question”
- “Report on Xinjiang Development”
- “Report on Xinjiang’s Development”
In: China Currents
- “The China-India-U.S. Triangle, 2001-2007”
Chapters
- The emerging international China-India division of labour and India’s quest for status parity and security with China
Date: 2014
- “The Unresolved Sino-Indian Border Dispute: An Interpretation”
Date: May 2011
- The Sino-Pakistan Entente Cordiale and the Future Accommodation of India and China
Date: November 2002
- The Gestalt of Sino-Indian Relations
Date: 2002
- Introduction
Date: 1997
- Asymmetrical Indian and Chinese Threat Perceptions
- Asymmetrical Indian and Chinese Threat Perceptions
- China
- China and the New World Order
- China's Decision for War with India in 1962
- China's Influence in Central and South Asia; Is it Increasing?
- China's Response to the Strategic Defense Initiative
- China's U.S. Policies
- China’s Wartime Diplomacy, 1937-1945
- Europe’s Role in Maintaining Peace in the Taiwan Strait
- India’s China Policies
- Mao Zedong E Raspad Ketaysko-Sovetskeh Otnasheney 1956-1966
- Mao Zedong, the Comintern, and the Second United Front,
- Sino-Russian Relations
- The Development Imperative and Beijing's Triangular Policy: A Reinterpretation
- The PLA as an Interest Group in Chinese Foreign Policy,
- The Reagan Administration's Southeast Asian Policy
- The Tet Offensive and Sino-Vietnamese Relations
- The U.S. strategy of Graduated Escalation and the Problem of Chinese Entry into the Vietnam War,
- “India-China Security Relations”
Working Papers
- Determinants of China-India Relations from 2000 to 2006
Date: December 2000