How does China decide when and how to coerce? In his newly published review in International Studies Review, Asst. Prof. Enrico Gloria examines “China’s Gambit: The Calculus” by Zhang Ketian (2023), a timely work that challenges linear views of Chinese assertiveness. Asst. Prof. Gloria highlights the book’s key insight: that China’s coercion is shaped not only by hard interests, but by careful trade-offs between economic risk, geopolitical backlash, and the need to signal resolve.
Read the full review here: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaf014