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List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
James Wesley Hutto and Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
2. Mainland Chinese Science Fiction: A Play in Four Acts
Sale Lilly
3. Chinese Strategic Perspectives on the Three-Body Problem
Shanshan Mei
Part I: 3BP and the Discipline of IR
4. Mearsheimer’s Universe Is a Dark Forest: Offensive Realism as a Motivating Framework for Three-Body
James Wesley Hutto
5. Prisoners, Colonists, or MAD Actors? The Changing Character of Payoff Structures in Remembrance of Earth’s Past
Tim Bettis
6. Wallfacers, Domestic Politics, and Extinction: The Limits of Realism in Intergalactic Politics
Michael A. Allen and Robert Herold
7. Is Thucydides Useful in Space? Earth as a Small State in The Three-Body Problem
Máté Szalai
8. Deterrence, but in Space: What Cosmic Deterrence Tells Us About Coercion
Jean-François Bélanger
Part II: 3BP and the Practice of International Politics
9. Sophons, Wallfacers, Swordholders, and the Cosmic Safety Notice: Strategic Thought in Chinese Science Fiction
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
10. Strategic Insights from the Three-Body Trilogy: Ten Lessons for Navigating a Complex Universe
Gregory D. Miller
11. When War Is Not a Duel: The Three-Body Game and the Scientific Way of Warfare
Mark D. Jacobsen
12. Militant Clients and Insurgency: Trisolaris and the Earth-Trisolaris Organization
Luke M. Herrington and Melia Pfannenstiel
13. Technology and Strategy in the Three-Body Problem Trilogy
Jaganath Sankaran
14. Negotiation and Diplomacy in the Three-Body Problem Trilogy
Roni Kay M. O’Dell
Part III: Critical Readings
15. Taiwan and the Glutton Sea
Dante K. Earle
16. Feminist Perspectives on Three-Body: Deterrence, Credibility, and the Portrayal of Women
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
17. Chinese Developmentalism and the Geopolitics of Remembrance of Earth’s Past
Aleš Karmazin
18. Reading Three-Body as Utopian International Thought
Stephen Benedict Dyson
List of Contributors
Index
