1 Introduction: China’s new diplomacy: old wine in a new bottle? Jean-Pierre Cabestan PART I Ideas and interests 2 Researching international relations in China: from security to international political economy Wang Zhengyi 3 Policy-making processes of Chinese foreign policy: the role of policy communities and think tanks Quansheng Zhao 4 Popular participation: civil society, diverse publics and internet in response to Chinese diplomacy Simon Shen PART II Issues 5 Keeping the past alive: the use of history in China’s foreign relations Christian A. Hess 6 On being sovereign during a time of increased interdependence: China’s evolving approach to sovereignty and its implications for Chinese foreign relations Allen Carlson 7 Oiling the wheels of foreign policy? Energy security and China’s international relations Zha Daojiong and Shaun Breslin 8 Human rights and China’s international relations Rosemary Foot 9 China’s soft power diplomacy in the 21st century Kerry Brown 10 China and global governance: status quo power or challenge to the global order? Giovanni B. Andornino 11 Integrating into the international community? Chinese peace-keeping operations Shogo Suzuki 12 Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: aims and implications Tai Ming Cheung PART III Relations 13 Less beautiful, still somewhat imperialist: Beijing eyes Sino-US relations Gregory J. Moore 14 China and Japan: between co-operation and competition Reinhard Drifte 15 China’s ‘backyard’: relations with the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia Robert G. Sutter 16 China’s relations with Europe: towards a ‘normal’ relationship? Chen Zhimin and John Armstrong 17 Security, strategy and the former USSR: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Marc Lanteigne 18 Playing by the rules? Sino-Middle Eastern relations Muhamad Olimat 19 A challenge to the global liberal order? the growing Chinese relationship with Africa Ian Taylor 20 China’s deepening ties with Latin America: a work in progress Riordan Roett 21 South Asia in China’s strategic calculus David Scott 22 Looking south: China’s Oceanic relations Nicholas Thomas Bibliography Index
Biography
The editor, Shaun Breslin, is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
He has published books on comparative politics, Mao Zedong, centre-local relations in China and, most recently, China and the global political economy.
