Winter 1998/1999
"Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyu Islands"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 23
By Erica Strecker Downs and Phillip C. Saunders
The authors argue that nationalism and political legitimacy have been and will continue to be closely linked in China. In their view, however, fears that nationalism combined with China’s growing economic and military power will result in increasingly aggressive behavior are “overstated, or at least premature.”
