ABSTRACT

This Handbook, comprising around twenty-five chapters provided by numerous experts in the field, will prove invaluable to students of international affairs, academics, researchers, businesspeople and policy analysts. Chapters will give up-do-date and unbiased information on the current state of Chinese international relations in historical perspective.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

China’s new diplomacy: old wine in a new bottle?

part I|34 pages

Ideas and interests

chapter 2|9 pages

Researching international relations in China

From security to international political economy

chapter 3|13 pages

Policy-making processes of Chinese foreign policy

The role of policy communities and think tanks Quansheng Zhao

chapter 4|10 pages

Popular participation

Civil society, diverse publics and internet in response to Chinese diplomacy

part II|81 pages

Issues

chapter 5|8 pages

Keeping the past alive

The use of history in China’s foreign relations Christian A. Hess

chapter 6|9 pages

On being sovereign during a time of 1

China’s evolving approach to sovereignty and its implications for Chinese foreign relations Allen Carlson

chapter 7|12 pages

Oiling the wheels of foreign policy?

Energy security and China’s international relations

chapter 10|12 pages

China and global governance

Status quo power or challenge to the global order?

chapter 11|8 pages

Integrating into the international community?

Chinese peace-keeping operations

chapter 12|12 pages

Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army

Aims and implications

part III|100 pages

Relations

chapter 13|9 pages

Less beautiful, still somewhat imperialist

Beijing eyes Sino-US relations

chapter 14|9 pages

China and Japan

Between co-operation and competition

chapter 15|9 pages

China’s ‘backyard’

Relations with the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia

chapter 16|10 pages

China’s relations with Europe

Towards a ‘normal’ relationship?

chapter 17|11 pages

Security, strategy and the former USSR

China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

chapter 18|10 pages

Playing by the rules?

Sino-Middle Eastern relations

chapter 19|13 pages

A challenge to the global liberal order?

The growing Chinese relationship with Africa

chapter 20|9 pages

China’s deepening ties with Latin America

A work in progress

chapter 22|8 pages

Looking south

China’s Oceanic relations