1st Edition
National Role Conception and Neoclassical Realism A Synthetic Exploration of the Sino-Soviet Alignment
Introduction: the myth of the Sino-Soviet alliance Part 1. Key concepts Chapter 1. Reviewing the Sino-Soviet relationship. Chapter 2. Theoretical development. Chapter 3. Methodology. Part 2. The Sino-Soviet split Chapter 4: Brothers in conflict: China’s evolving national role conception in the socialist bloc, 1956–1960. Chapter 5: Towards the split: China’s changing roles and the struggle for communist leadership, 1960–1966 Part 3. The Sino-Soviet normalisation Chapter 6: Defining ‘normalisation’: China’s modernisation and Sino-Soviet rapprochement. Chapter 7: ‘Farewell to the past’: the road to normalisation, 1986–1989. Epilogue: Before the smoking gun: bridging causation across multi-level factors
Biography
Guangyi Pan is Lecturer in international political studies at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. His research primarily focuses on asymmetric politics, China’s alliance/alignment policy, Sino-Soviet (Russia) relations and the neoclassical realism of International Relations. Guangyi has published journal articles, media reports and analytical pieces in the areas of Indo-Pacific politics, foreign policy analysis and Cold War history. His recent articles appeared in International Affairs, International Relations of Asia-Pacific, Pacific Review, the Chinese Journal of Political Science, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and other journals. He received his PhD in international politics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2024. Previously, he studied at Nanjing University and worked at UNICEF China.
