The US-China-Russia triangle: an evolving historiography

Intro -- Preface -- About This Book -- Methodology and Sources -- Spellings, Structure and Organization -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: A New Cold War? The US-China-Russia Strategic Triangle -- 1.1 Triadic Insecurity: Kinetic Perspectives -- 1.1.1 Rhetoric and Action -- 1.1.2 Grand-Strategic Triangulation -- 1.1.3 A Word from the Clandestine Services -- 1.2 An All-of-Government Endeavor -- 1.2.1 Charge of the 'Dragon-Slayers' -- 1.2.2 Congress Steps up -- 1.3 Back Office Advice -- 1.3.1 RAND's Geopolitical Analyses -- 1.3.2 RAND's Kinetic Calculus -- 1.4 The Russo-Chinese Response -- 1.4.1 A Crystallizing Dyad -- 1.4.2 A Competitive Mindscape -- 1.4.3 The Kremlin Perspective -- 1.5 Dialectic Fluid Dynamics -- 2 Triangular Dynamics in the Imperial Era -- 2.1 Empires Engage -- 2.1.1 Benighted Beginnings -- 2.1.2 Bloody Insurrections and War -- 2.1.3 Flying the US Flag -- 2.2 Power Balances and Frontier Frictions -- 2.2.1 New Treaties and Conventions -- 2.2.2 US-Russian Convergence -- 2.2.3 An Oscillating Sino-US Trajectory -- 2.2.4 From Empathy to Understanding -- 2.3 Denouement of the Old, Ascent of the New -- 2.3.1 Empires Collide -- 2.3.2 Leviathan's Rise -- 2.3.3 Russia in the New Century -- 2.4 Traumatic Transformation -- 2.4.1 Rebellion, Railways, and Narcotics -- 2.4.2 The Chrysalis Bursts -- 3 The Triad Confronts Republican Turbulence -- 3.1 An Empire Vanishes -- 3.1.1 Chaotic Fratricide -- 3.1.2 China and the Great War -- 3.2 China in a Geopolitical Chess-Tournament -- 3.2.1 US Neutrality Versus Russo-German Kinetics -- 3.2.2 Russia Transformed -- 3.3 Triadic Fluidity -- 3.3.1 A Forgotten Campaign -- 3.3.2 Meanwhile, in China -- 3.3.3 US-Soviet Malarkey -- 3.4 Sino-Soviet-Japan Linkages -- 3.4.1 China's Fragmented Polity -- 3.4.2 The Russia-China-Japan Triangle -- 3.5 New Diplomatic Deals.