A nation must think before it acts.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University. This lecture was conducted for China’s Encounter with the West: A History Institute for Teachers, held on March 1–2, 2008. The event was sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program, and held at UTC.
FPRI’s History Institutes are made possible by generous support from the Annenberg Foundation. Additional funding for specific programs has been contributed by W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr., the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation