• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Landscape and Memory
• In the Context of the Cold War
1. The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity
   Détente
2. Taiwan Expendable?
3. Survival
   Ford’s Tribulations
4. Collapse and Reprieve
   Moral Imperatives; Military Challenges
5. Derecognition
6. Final Act
7. The Taiwan Relations Act
   Recognizing Your Friends and Enemies
8. The Reagan Difference
9. American Assurances
   The End of the Cold War
10. Shifting Ground
    Search for a New World Order
11. Change and Continuity
12. Taiwan Strait Crisis
13. Setting the Record Straight
    War against Terrorism
14. The Influence of Democracy
• Conclusion: The Uses of Adversity
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Interviews
• Bibliography
• Index

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is a professor in the History Department and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.