Richard C. Bush is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. He has worked on China and Taiwan issues his entire professional career: at the Asia Society, on the House International Relations Committee, on the National Intelligence Council, and at the American Institute in Taiwan, where he served as chairman and managing director from 1997 to 2002.
"Richard Bush has written the most comprehensive English-language
account of the vicissitudes of cross-Strait relations. The author
serves as historian, detailing the long-term development of
cross-Strait relations; as political scientist, describing the
domestic politics of Taiwan and China and their respective foreign
policy goals; and as policy expert, offering some ways out of the
current impasse between Beijing and Taipei." —Steven Phillips,
Towson University, Pacific Affairs, 12/22/2006|"an excellent study
that lucidly and comprehensively outlines the fundamental
procedural and substantive issues in cross-strait relations even as
it highlights the intractability of the deadlock and the real
limits to U.S. influence." —Steven M. Goldstein, Smith College,
Journal of Asian Studies, 11/1/2006|"While Mr. Bush believes that
the Cross-Strait dilemma may never be entirely resolved, his book
achieves its objective of clarifying the dispute and steering
readers away from dangerous misassumptions." —Kin-ming Liu, Far
Eastern Economic Review, 3/1/2006|"Bush brings impeccable
credentials to this work... [He] has produced a cogent analysis of
the problems preventing a resolution of cross-Strait tensions, and
a nuanced critique of why the solutions proposed thus far are
unlikely to work." —June Teufel Dreyer, in Taiwan Business Topics,
3/15/2005|"Richard Bush has written the most comprehensive
English-language account of the vicissitudes of cross-strait
relations. This short review cannot do justice to the richness of
Bush's study." — Pacific Affairs|"Mr. Bush, as a former chairman of
the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. Embassy, and
currently director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
at the Brookings Institution, is uniquely qualified to offer his
answers in this detailed study of the 'Taiwan Strait issue.'"
—Kim-Ming Liu, Hong Kong's Apple Daily, Far Eastern Economic
Review|"Richard Bush's book on the Taiwan-China conundrum benefits
from his vast experience in the field and rigorous intellectual
analysis." —Laurence Eyton, Taiwan Review, 10/31/2006|"'Untying the
Knot' is the best account to date of why Taiwan and mainland China
have remained divided since 1949 and why both regimes have failed
to negotiate a resolution to their conflicting claims." —Ramon H.
Myers, Hoover Institution, The China Review, 4/1/2006|"leaves the
reader with a coherent picture of this complex subject" —Raymond F.
Burghardt, The East-West Center, International Affairs|"Richard
Bush is a well-known Taiwan specialist. His latest book, Untying
the Knot, is a genuine tour de force. It makes a comprehensive,
realistic, clear and convincing presentation of one of the most
complex issues that the US and the international community are
facing today: the China-Taiwan conundrum....definitely a
'must-read'" —Jean-Pierre Cabestan, CNRS, Paris, The China Journal,
7/1/2006|"as good a guide as there is in the United States for
navigating these complex and often treacherous waters....Bush
documents in authoritative fashion the many complex historical,
political, sociological, and even psychological elements of the
current impasse. -Derek Mitchell
a brace effort to untangle one of the most complex national
security challenges confronting the United States in the current
security environment....As one of the nation's foremost experts on
the Taiwan quandary, Bush demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge
concerning both the origins of the dispute and, in particular, the
fast moving pace of developments during the past decade. -Lyle
Goldstein
Bush in uniquely qualified to write such a book, as he is one of a
handful of American Asia experts who possess a profound sense for
the real Taiwan -Dan Blumenthal
a primer for understanding the underlying causes of, and possible
policy responses to this most dangerous deadlock. -Steven M.
Goldstein" — Asia Policy, 7/1/2006
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