1st Edition
China Reclaims World Power Status Putting an end to the world America made
1. Understanding China's Strategy
Approaching China from outside and from within
The silent transformations and the long time
Market economy and capitalism
2. Understanding power in the XXI Century’s international relations
Soft power and smart power, a Weberian critique
Analysing power: dissymmetry, structure, interactive processes and resources
The power structure and its five sub-structures
The means of power: interactive processes and resources
Elementary interactive processes and elementary resources
Complex interactive processes and complex resources
The state, diplomacy, legitimation and coercion
Analysing power in the XXI century international system
3. China's strategy: a view from Beijing
From the Sunzi strategy to the new China’s strategy
The first contributions of Hu Angang to understand China’s strategy
Hu’s contribution to the reorientation of China’s strategy towards ‘putting people first’
Hu Angang’s systematic analysis of China’s strategy to reclaim world power status
Comparing China’s comprehensive national power with the US
4. Understanding US’s strategy: How the US became the world hegemon of the XX Century and how it tries to retain this status for the XXI century
The historical origins of US foreign policy: why it does matter
The historical origins of US ideology: the ‘Manifest Destiny’ and ‘the end of history’
The actualization of US ideology: the ‘new end of history’
From the ‘manifest destiny’ to the ‘indispensable nation’
Why the indispensable nation is bound to lead the world?
Setting the rules of the international system
Realizing ‘expansion’: the importance of economic and military resources
From religious fundamentalism to democratic and free trade fundamentalism and the identification and demonization of the enemy
From the Puritans’ ‘end of history’ to the ‘new end of history’.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy: the end of the ‘end of history’?
The reactions of neo-conservatives to Donald Trump’s election
US foreign policy of President Donald TrumpUS foreign policy and geopolitical thinking
The implementation of US foreign policy toward China
A very short and factual history of US expansion in the XIX and XX centuries
US strategy toward China in the XXI century
5. China’s strategy for reclaiming world power status: putting an end to the ‘world America made’
The improbable ‘China model’ and the origins of contemporary China’s foreign policy
The construction of China’s strategy: building power resources
The One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy: encircling the world
The way toward the OBOR
The OBOR, or China’s grand strategy
The OBOR and end to the ‘world America made’
Conclusion: The rise of China and the new international order
Biography
Paolo Urio is Professor Emeritus of Public Management at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
