Nancy L Tucker

By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations)

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and...

Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Only a Taiwan Straits conflict could plunge Americans into war with a nuclear-armed great powe...

The Time In Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn’t know why, she wrote: ‘I want to be thin.’Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalized, and finally swung the other way t...

Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996

China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996

Dangerous Strait: the U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis

Dangerous Strait: the U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis

Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968

Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968