Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power

by Yufan Hao, C.X. George Wei, Lowell Dittmer

Overview

When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power—a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical or theoretical evidence, but until this volume, few studies from a Chinese perspective have been published in English.

In Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power, editors Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei, and Lowell Dittmer reveal how Chinese scholars view their nation's rise to global dominance. Drawing from a wealth of foreign relations experts including scholars native to the region, this volume examines the unique challenges China faces as it adapts in its role as a world leader, and it analyzes how China's evolving international relationships are shaping the global landscape of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813192024
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	07/03/2009
Series:	Asia in the New Millennium
Edition description:	1
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Yufan Hao is professor of political science at Colgate University, as well as professor and dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Macau. George Wei is associate professor of history at Susquehanna University, PA, as well as associate professor and coordinator of the History Program, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Macau. Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Overview: The Evolution of China's Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in the Era of Reform, 1976-2005
Building a New Conceptual Framework for U.S.-China Relations
China's New Leadership and Strategic Relations with the United States
American Nuclear Primacy or Mutually Assured Destruction: The Future of the U.S.-China Strategic Balance of Power
The Sino-Russian Strategic Relationship: Ghost of the "Strategic Triangle"?
The European Union and China: Partnership with Competition
China's Japan Policy: Beijing's View of the U.S.-Japan Alliance
The Korean Peninsula: A Chinese View on the North Korean Nuclear issue
China's Dilemma over the North Korean Nuclear Problem
Changes in South Asia since 9/11 and China's Policy Options
After the Anti-Secession Law: Cross-Strait and U.S.-China Relations
Hong Kong and Macao: In between China and the West
Between Rhetoric and Pragmatism: Nationalism as a Driving Force of Chinese Foreign Policy
Engagement or Sanction? U.S. Economic Diplomacy toward China since the Cold War
The Rupture of the Sino-Soviet Alliance: An Assessment of the National Intelligence Evaluation
A Misty Cold War in the Himalayas: China's Historical Temperament in International Relations
An Intercultural Communication Model of International Relations: The Case of China

Editorial Reviews

"This collection... seeks to offer an alternative approach to western views of China's rapidly developing international relations in light of sweeping changes to its global role...as well as fresh insights on some of the most important past and present issues relating to the country's ongoing opening to the world." —International Affairs

From the Publisher

This is an important and timely work. It increases our understanding of PRC foreign policy and the factors that shape it.

Dennis V. Hickey

This volume makes a significant contribution to scholarship in Chinese foreign policy by examining challenging theoretical and policy issues. The authors ask important questions and help to solve multiple puzzles in Chinese foreign policy.

Guoli Liu