This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the international order. Drawing on an extensive range of Chinese-language debates and discussions, the book explains the roles of different actors and interests in Chinese international interactions, and how they influence the nature of Chinese strategies for global change. It also gives a unique perspective on how assessments of the consequences of China’s rise are formed, and how and why these understandings change. Providing an important challenge to scholars and policy makers who seek to engage with China, the book demonstrates just how far starting assumptions can influence the questions asked, evidence sought and conclusions reached.
This IPE Classic considers one of the most pressing issues of the Twenty-First century: the relationship between domestic configurations of power and globalized production processes in shaping the process and implications of China's re-engagement with the global economy.
A lucid analysis of Mao as revolutionary general, ideologist and astute political manipulator, this introduction to the life and career of Mao Zedong provides an excellent introduction to modern Chinese history and its enigmatic protagonist.
This is an authoritative reappraisal of one of the most controversial shapers of the modern world. Written for non-specialists, it explores the career of Mao from a number of angles.
Interest in regionalism reached a high point in the mid-1990s, when a whole range of initiatives, including the creation of the NAFTA, the consolidation of Mercosur, the reorientation of the Southern Africa Dev¿t. Community, & the replacement of the European Econ. Comm. with the European Union were seen as presaging a ¿world of regions.¿ A decade or so on the promises of this ¿second wave¿ of regionalism appears to have stalled, & fears of a world of competing regions has failed to materialize. This report discusses: (1) the forms & definitions of ¿region¿; (2) changing perceptions in ASEAN & China; (3) toward ASEAN Plus Three; (4) identifying the region; (5) China & ASEAN: beyond economic rationality; (6) the future of the East Asia Summit.
This book analyses the changing nature of centre-province relations in China in a period of rapid economic change. It aims to show how leadership conflicts over the nature and scope of economic change gave rise to an incremental and reactive reform process. The resulting partially reformed economic system not only gave many provincial leaders the ability to ignore central economic commands, but the perceived consequences of reform also increased the desire of some local leaders to assert their independence.
The contemporary importance of the Asia-Pacific region in international relations has generated a very large and diverse academic literature. This four-volume set, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, brings together for the first time a collection of essential articles covering the key themes and issues since the end of the Cold War. It examines the ways in which the region understands its place in the world and how the rest of the world understands the 'Asia Pacific', before turning to matters of security, international political economy and regional governance.
The contemporary importance of the Asia-Pacific region in international relations has generated a very large and diverse academic literature. This four-volume set, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, brings together for the first time a collection of essential articles covering the key themes and issues since the end of the Cold War. It examines the ways in which the region understands its place in the world and how the rest of the world understands the 'Asia Pacific', before turning to matters of security, international political economy and regional governance.
This comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying China's international relations. It incorporates traditional security concerns, as well as the new 'human' security issues and international economic relations, focusing on relations with the US and/or East Asia, along with relations with the rest of the world. Written by expert China scholars, this book: looks at China's international relations in terms of the core issues of politics, economics and security explains the dominant approaches to studying China's international relations and how these lead to different understandings places the study of contemporary international relations in a historical context with an emphasis on how the past influences the present, and the future examines the structures of international relations policy-making in China and the main objectives of Chinese policy provides detailed accounts of China's key relations with the US, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas considers China's relations with major global institutions such as the UN, the World Bank and the WTO. Including helpful summaries, sample questions, suggestions for further reading and identifying key leading points, this is an invaluable resource for those studying Chinese politics and the international relations of the Asia Pacific.
When the post-Mao leadership initiated economic reform in 1978, they set in motion a process which resulted in a fundamental redistribution of power within the Chinese party-state. Reducing central administrative economic control was a key component of the reform process. But although the decentralization of power to the provinces and producers was a deliberate central strategy, the resulting growth of provincial economic autonomy has surprised and angered even the architects of the decentralization reforms. China's reformist central leaders must take their share of the blame for the unexpected growth in provincial power in the 1980s. Their decision to adopt an incremental and reactive approach to reform may have been the most practical way of changing the economic system, but it never-the-less prepared the ground for provincial considerations gradually to overtake national concerns in local economic decision making. The resulting redistribution of power between centre and provinces has not only obstructed the attainment of some of the goals of reform, but also has important implications for the future trajectory of the Chinese political system.
This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the international order. Drawing on an extensive range of Chinese-language debates and discussions, the book explains the roles of different actors and interests in Chinese international interactions, and how they influence the nature of Chinese strategies for global change. It also gives a unique perspective on how assessments of the consequences of China’s rise are formed, and how and why these understandings change. Providing an important challenge to scholars and policy makers who seek to engage with China, the book demonstrates just how far starting assumptions can influence the questions asked, evidence sought and conclusions reached.
This book analyses the changing nature of centre-province relations in China in a period of rapid economic change. It aims to show how leadership conflicts over the nature and scope of economic change gave rise to an incremental and reactive reform process. The resulting partially reformed economic system not only gave many provincial leaders the ability to ignore central economic commands, but the perceived consequences of reform also increased the desire of some local leaders to assert their independence.
This IPE Classic considers one of the most pressing issues of the Twenty-First century: the relationship between domestic configurations of power and globalized production processes in shaping the process and implications of China's re-engagement with the global economy.
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