학위논문(석사)--서울대학교 대학원 :국제대학원 국제학과(국제지역학전공),2019. 8. Sheen, Seong-Ho.China's growing power and attitude toward its coercive use has profound implications for regional stability in the Asia-Pacific. One critical component to that stability is China's crisis behavior in key territorial disputes throughout the region. This paper seeks to understand the nature of China's nuclear deterrent threats in the post-Cold War era by identifying the conditions under which Chinese leaders choose nuclear coercion over other viable policy alternatives. Second, the paper explores the utility of applying prospect theory to China's crisis behavior to identify those conditions within a new prospect theory model. The findings suggest that, first, the decision to en...