Phillip M Saunders

The People's Liberation Army and contingency planning in China

How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (Pla) to conduct new missions rang...

The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles

This collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China’s naval modernization. The book’s 10 chapters represent papers delivered at a 2007 conference, but have been updated and, most importantly, framed by expertly written introductory and concluding chapters that bring th...

PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking

In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential PLA...

A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12

This companion to the National Content Standards is divided into two parts: Framework Provides the basic economics vocabulary, including analytical tools needed to understand and to make decisions about economics and financial issues Scope and Sequence Guidelines Recommends how to sequence economics...

Civil-Military Relations in China: Assessing the PLA's Role in Elite Politics

This study reviews the last 20 years of academic literature on the role of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Chinese elite politics. It examines the PLA’s willingness to support the continued rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to obey directives from top party leaders, the PLA’s influ...

Teaching Undergraduate Economics: A Handbook for Instructors

Following in much the same vein as its predecessor, Handbook on Teaching Principles of Economics, this handbook's intention is to offer guidance and advice to intending, new, and seasoned professors. But unlike its predecessor this handbook's aim is wider-undergraduate economics in general. This g...

The Chinese Air Force: Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities

The ever-accelerating transformation of the People's Republic of China (Prc) in the years since the era of Mao Zedong, particularly in its economic and military growth, has been nothing short of remarkable. Developments over the last quarter-century-effectively since the tragedy of Tiananmen Square ...

Buy, Build, or Steal: China's Quest for Advanced Military Aviation Technologies

Although China continues to lag approximately two decades behind the world’s most sophisticated air forces in terms of its ability to develop and produce fighter aircraft and other complex aerospace systems, it has moved over time from absolute reliance on other countries for military aviation techn...

The Principles of Economics Course: A Handbook for Instructors

Teaching Undergraduate Economics: A Handbook for Instructors

The Political Dimension of Labor Management Relations: National Trends and State Level Developments in Massachusetts