1st Edition

Chinese International Relations Theory As Emerging from Practice and Policy

Edited By Jonathan Ping, Anna Hayes, Brett McCormick Copyright 2025
228 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how fundamental aspects of China’s rapidly evolving arena of international relations theory are emerging directly from the realms of practice and policy. As a unique explanation of the Chinese School by those actually making the decisions, assisted and researched in collaboration with eminent global scholars, the book guides the global reader through the building of Chinese... Read more

1. Towards a Chinese theory of international relations evidenced in practice and policy

Anna Hayes, Jonathan Ping and Brett McCormick

2. Chinese international relations theory of statecraft and party

Jonathan Ping

3. Conceptualizing peace in China: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and their strategic thinking

Cui Yue

4. Exploring illiberal practices in China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Towards norms creation and democratic diffusion-proofing?

Adam Bartley

5. The discursive and affective dimensions of the ‘China Dream’

Dylan M H Loh

6. Global ‘civilization politics’ with ‘civilization value’

Su Hao, Zhou Jiali and Ding Li

7. A new model of major power relations and sources of insecurity in the region: Third country perspectives

Stephen Robert Nagy

8. The divergence between Vietnamese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party

Hạnh Nguyen

9. Confronting China’s realpolitik approach in the South China Sea Dispute: The Philippines’ changing grand strategies

Renato Cruz De Castro

10. Beijing’s public diplomacy: From soft power to sharp power and the Australian experience

Anna Hayes

11. China’s international relations theory and India

Jagannath Panda and Eerishika Pankaj

12. International relations theory in a post-Great Power world

Brett McCormick, Jonathan Ping and Anna Hayes

Biography

Jonathan Ping is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Bond University, Australia. 

Anna Hayes is Senior Lecturer of International Relations at James Cook University, Australia. 

Brett McCormick is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Human Sciences at the University of New Haven, USA.