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Notes
1. Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of
Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2006), 510.
2. Ibid., 531–33.
3. Ibid., 542 and 545–46.
4. Michael Sturmer, The German Empire, 1870-1918 (New York:
The Modern Library, 2000), 15–24.
5. Sturmer, The German Empire, 3–5; and Gordon Craig,
Germany, 1866-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978),
33–34.
6. Sturmer, The German Empire, xxi, 84–85, and 88–90; and
Clark, Iron Kingdom, 553–55.
7. Ashley J. Tellis, Balancing Without Containment: An American
Strategy for Managing China (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014), 3 and 13.
8. John Thornhill, “China’s Neighbors Get Nervous” International Forum online, 2 December 2002, accessed 12 May 2016, http://
www.internationalforum.com/Articles/chinas%20neighbors%20
get%20nervous%20by%20Thornhill.htm.
9. Ted Galen Carpenter, “Is India the Latest Component of
a U.S.-Led Encirclement Strategy against China?” Cato Institute
website, 12 February 2014, accessed 10 May 2016, http://www.
cato.org/publications/commentary/india-latest-component-us.
led-encirclement-strategy-against-china/.
10. Denis Pinchuk, “Rosneft to Double Oil Flows to China
in $270 Billion Deal,” Reuters online, 21 June 2013, accessed 12
May 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-china-idUSBRE95K08820130621; and Edward C. Chow and Michael Lelyveld,
“Russia-China Gas Deal and Redeal,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, 11 May 2015, accessed online 13 May 2016, http://
csis.org/publication/russia-china-gas-deal-and-redeal.
11. Peter Harris, “The Geopolitics of Sino-Russian Rapprochement,” The Diplomat online, 11 July 2014, accessed 12 May 2016,
http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/the-geopolitics-of-sino-russian-rapprochement/; and Daniel Wagner, “Why the China/Russia
Rapprochement Won’t Last,” Huffington Post website, last modified

10 January 2015, accessed 12 May 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.
com/daniel-wagner/china-russia-rapprochement_b_6133480.html.
12. John Pomfret, “U.S. Takes a Tougher Tone With China,” Washington Post website, 30 July 2010, accessed 10 May
2016, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072906416.html.
13. Tellis, Balancing Without Containment, 5. Tellis appears to
have introduced the idea that Chinese foreign policy toward its
neighbors is a type of Monroe Doctrine.
14. Biwu Zhang, “Chinese Perceptions of US Return to Southeast
Asia and the Prospect of China’s Peaceful Rise,” Journal of Contemporary China 24(91) (2015): 185–87 and 189. doi:10.1080/10670
564.2014.918419. The author of this study notes that he analyzed
eighty-three articles and papers from a variety of scholarly Chinese
journals. Of this sample, seventy-five articles took a negative view
of U.S. actions involving China. Thirty-five of those took a position
that U.S. efforts weakened China’s influence in Southeast Asia or
worsened its security situation, suggesting a prevailing perception
that U.S. policy is aimed at undermining China.
15. Ibid., 188.
16. Tellis, Balancing Without Containment, x.
17. Ibid., ix–x, 5-6, 38, 50, and 84.
18. Ibid., 2, 24, 29–30, and 35–36.
19. Ibid., 32.
20. Ibid., 33.
21. Ibid., 84.
22. Ibid., 36.
23. Ibid., 37.
24. Zhang, “Chinese Perceptions of US Return to Southeast
Asia,” 189-90. Zhang found that twenty-nine of the eighty-three papers examined put forth recommendations for Chinese engagement
with the United States. Many of them suggest an approach similar to
that of Tellis.
25. Tellis, Balancing Without Containment, 87.
26. Ibid., 37–39.
27. Ibid., 38–39 and 42–44.

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