U.S.-China Strategic Relations and Competitive Sports

This book investigates cultural influences of competitive sports on U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking and tactical behavior.

Most competitive sports owe their origins to human fighting. Although they are ritualized contests, competitive sports have retained many aspects of human warfare, especially the use of strategy and tactics that moves human contest beyond military clashes to the subjugation of opponents without bloodshed.

Cultural influences usually go unnoticed. Indeed, Washington often conducts foreign affairs like football games without knowing that is the case. Likewise, Beijing moves in Weiqi style subconsciously. This book uncovers these influences.

This book with in-depth analyses of those sports metaphors (rather than superficial or sporadic commentary in passing) The observations in this book are extraordinarily revealing and insightful This book is a special contribution to the study of strategic culture and decision making

Auteur
David Lai, Ph.D. is currently an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, USA and previously professor at the U.S. Army and Air War Colleges respectively.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction.-Part I: American Games.-Chapter 2: It's All Games: U.S. Foreign and Security Policies.- Chapter 3: American Football and War.- Chapter 4: Football vs. Soccer: American Warfare in an Era of Unconventional Threats.- Chapter 5: Chess and Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 6: The Great Pacific Chess Match: U.S. Chess Moves on China.- Chapter 7: Uncovering Hidden Patterns of Thought in War: Weiqi Versus Chess.- Chapter 8: Baseball and American Strategic Culture.- Chapter 9: United States vs North Korea in No-Limit Poker: Alligator Blood or Dead Money?.- Part II: Chinese Games.- Chapter 10: Learning from the Stones: A Weiqi Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi .- Chapter 11: East Meets West: An Ancient Game Sheds New Light on U.S.-Asian Strategic Relations.- Chapter 12: China's Strategic Moves and Countermoves in the Asia-Pacific.- Chapter 13: Weiqi and Artificial Intelligence: Potential for Strategic Decision Making.