At the President's Pleasure : FDR’s Leadership of Wartime Sino-US Relations

At the President's Pleasure re-examines Franklin Roosevelt's leadership of US diplomacy with China in World War II using new perspectives on aspects of Sino-US relations. At the President’s Pleasure: FDR’s Leadership of Wartime Sino-US Relations Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction 1: Leaders and Presidents Introduction Leadership Theory Presidents and Leadership Theory Conclusion 2: Hail to the Chief: FDR’s Leadership Style Introduction FDR’s Early Life and First Terms FDR’s Centralization of Power and the State Department FDR’s Centralization of Power and the War Department FDR, Public Opinion, and His Inconsistency Conclusion 3 “The Most Important Factor in the Whole East”: FDR’s Vision for Sino-us Relations Introduction The United States’ Interests in China FDR’s China Vision in Context Conclusion 4 A Vision without a Plan: FDR’s Wartime China Policies Introduction The United Nations Organization Kuomintang-Communist Relations Lend-Lease and Military Aid to China Extraterritoriality Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws Bureaucratic Leadership Theory and FDR Conclusion 5: “The Deckhand Diplomat”: Ambassador Gauss and General Stilwell in China Introduction The Ambassador and His Role The Ambassador and the State Department General Stilwell and His Role Stilwell and the War Department Stilwell and Gauss in Competition Failure in China Organizational Leadership Theory and FDR Conclusion 6: Washington Mandarins: FDR’s Personal Representatives to China Introduction US Diplomats and Envoys to China Chinese Diplomats and Envoys Public Opinion Foreign Policy Leadership Theory and FDR Conclusion 7: Rubberlegs, the Peanut and the Limeys: FDR’s Summit Diplomacy Introduction The Exclusion of the State Department Chinese Exclusion from Military Strategy Chinese Involvement in Post-war Planning The Impact of FDR’s Leadership Style James Barber’s Leadership Theory and FDR Conclusion 8: The Changing of the Guard Introduction The State Department after Hull China after Stilwell and Gauss The Presidency after Roosevelt US Post-war China Policy Changes in Institutional Relations Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index At the President's Pleasure offers a new perspective on the way the United States and China interacted during World War II. Sally K. Burt examines President Franklin Roosevelt's methods of conducting diplomacy, particularly his tendency to centralise foreign policy-making into his own hands, as it applied to wartime Sino-US relations. By critiquing the president's foreign policy leadership with China, Burt provides a new perspective on US diplomacy and opens the door for further exploration of contemporary methods of conducting relations between the US and China. This book, then, will interest scholars, historians, international relations specialists and practitioners and those interested in global politics, both historical and in the present day.--Publisher At the President’s Pleasure' offers a new perspective on the way the United States and China interacted during World War II. Sally K. Burt examines President Franklin Roosevelt’s methods of conducting diplomacy, particularly his tendency to centralise foreign policy-making into his own hands, as it applied to wartime Sino-US relations. By critiquing the president’s foreign policy leadership with China, Burt provides a new perspective on US diplomacy and opens the door for further exploration of contemporary methods of conducting relations between the US and China. This book, then, will interest scholars, historians, international relations specialists and practitioners and those interested in global politics, both historical and in the present day.0