America, China, and the Struggle for World Order Ideas, Traditions, Historical Legacies, and Global Visions

by Ikenberry, G. John; Jisi, Wang; Feng, Zhu

• ISBN13: 9781137532183
• ISBN10: 1137532181
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book brings together twelve scholars–-six Americans and six Chinese-–to explore the ways America and China think about international order. What are the traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies that each country brings to debates about how the rules and institutions of the global system should be organized? The book addresses this question by pairing American and Chinese scholars in each chapter on specific topics related to global order: sovereignty, collective security, resources and the environment, trade, alliances, and monetary and financial relations. The book offers a vivid portrait of how the two countries come to global affairs from richly diverse and divergent starting points, and, in turn, how these factors affect current global dialogues.

Author Biography

G. John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order.

Wang Jisi is president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies and professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University, China. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Foreign Ministry of China and a Global Scholar of Princeton University, USA.

Zhu Feng is Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea, Nanjing University, China. He is also a senior research fellow at the China Center for Peace and Development, and professor at Peking University's School of International Studies, China.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction: The United States, China, and Global Order; G. John Ikenberry
PART I: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE SYSTEM
1. Sovereignty American Style: Protecting Apple Pie, Fixing Foreign Recipes; Jeffrey W. Legro
2. From Tianxia to Westphalia: The Evolving Chinese Conception of Sovereignty and World Order; Fei-Ling Wang
PART II: COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE UNITED NATIONS
3. The United States, the United Nations, and Collective Security: Exploring the Deep Sources of American Conduct; Stewart Patrick
4. China's Evolving Attitudes and Approaches Towards UN Collective Security; Jianwei Wang
PART III: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
5. Is There an Exceptional American Approach to Global Economic Governance?; Daniel W. Drezner
6. China's Approach to Economic Diplomacy; Yang YAO
PART IV: TRADE AND RESOURCES
7. Still the Liberal Leader? Domestic Legacies, International Realities, and the Role of the United States in the World Economy; Michael Mastanduno
8. China as a Listian Trading State: Interest, Power, and Economic Ideology; Weixing Hu
PART V: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
9. A Green Giant? Inconsistency and American Environmental Diplomacy; Joshua Busby
10. China and International Cooperation on the Environment: Historical and Intellectual Roots of Chinese Thinking about the Environment; Ming WAN
PART VI: ALLIANCES AND ARMS CONTROL
11. The American Way of Seeking Security Ideology and Pargmatism; John Owen
12. In Search of Security and Self-identity: Promise and Paradox of China's Nuclear Weapons; Yu Bin
Conclusion; Wang Jisi and Zhu Feng