中国领土争端中的合作与冲突:由《强边安邦》一书说开去

Cooperation and Conflicts in China＇s Territorial Disputes： A Review on the Book Strong Borders, Secure Nation

新中国成立后面临着众多领土争端，这些争端涉及陆地边界、本土和离岸岛礁。弗拉维尔博士所著的《强边安邦》一书，首次从国际政治、国际关系和国家安全等角度，构建了关于国家在领土争端中决策动因的理论，考察了新中国处理领土争端的政策，剖析了促使中国在绝大多数争端上采取合作策略、在少数争端中采取对抗策略的动因，并预测了中印边界、钓鱼岛和南沙群岛等未决领土争端的走向。该书对领土争端中的冲突与合作研究，以及中国处理未决的领土争端具有重要理论价值和现实意义。

Since the founding of the People＇s Republic of China , it has been continuously confronted with a variety of territorial disputes that covers land border as well as offshore and distant tions： the Cooperation and Co Taylor Fravel, examines the nflicts in People＇ islands. The book Strong Borders, Strong Na- China＇s Territorial Disputes, written by Dr s Republic of China＇s policy over territorial disputes from the perspectives of international politics, international relations, and national security for the first time, basing its argument on a theoretic model con- cerning the initiative and causes of the policy making of state in territorial dis- putes. It analyzes the causes that motived China to adopt cooperative tactics on most disputes and take confrontational measures on a minority of disputes, and predicts the trends of the unsetded territorial disputes on the China-India borders, the Diaoyu Islands, and the Nansha Islands. This book may offer important theo- retical values and realistic significance for scholars to conduct researches on the co- operation and conflicts in territorial disputes and for Chinese policy makers to dealwith the issues related to its unsettled territorial disputes.