1st Edition

China and International Institutions Alternate Paths to Global Power

By Marc Lanteigne Copyright 2005
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power with international institutions? This new study explores why China has chosen to abandon its... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Red Light, Green Light: China and the World Trade Organisation   3. Flying Geese and Rising Phoenix: China, APEC, and Exclusive Trade Regimes  4. Chimeras or Peacebuilders? China’s New Approach to Strategic Regimes  5. Labyrinth’s Edge: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation  6. Seeking Modernity: China’s Institutional Openings and Shifts in International Power

 

Biography

Marc Lanteigne is a Lecturer at McGill University, Canada. His research specialties include the politics and foreign policy of China, as well as China’s regional relations with Central and South Asia. His current research projects focus on Beijing’s evolving engagement policies with international strategic and economic institutions, comparative Asian and Eurasian institution-building, and Chinese diplomacy within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and changing Sino-Asian strategic relations. He has published papers on China’s evolving military policy and PLA politics, East Asian diplomacy in the case of North Korean nuclear weapons, and the strategic impact of theatre missile defence in Asia.

'Lanteigne's study breaks new ground in arguing that Beijing followed the path to increase China's international power, and, for the most part, has acheived his goal.'-The China Journal, No 57