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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.
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