China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security

by Wu; Guoguang

• ISBN13: 9780415425711
• ISBN10: 0415425719
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P China's recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China's long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC's attitude and in its declaratory and operational policies, with a trend toward the accepting and advocating of multilateralism in international affairs. Whilst China's involvement has been primarily in the economic arena, for example, participation in the World Trade Organization and ASEAN Plus Three, it has more recently expanded into international security institutions, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. /P P This book records, analyzes, and attempts to conceptualize, this phenomenal development in Chinese foreign policy and its impact on international relations, with the emphasis on China's active participation in multilaterally-oriented regional security regimes. Written by an impressive teamof international scholars, this book is the first collective effort in the field of China studies and international relations to look at China's recent turn to multilateralism in foreign affairs. It will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics and foreign policy, security studies and international relations. /P

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. x
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
International multilateralism with Chinese characteristics: attitude changes, policy imperatives, and regional impacts	p. 3
Global concerns	p. 19
China's new internationalism	p. 21
Racing to integrate, or cooperating to compete? Liberal and realist interpretations of China's new multilateralism	p. 35
The new player in the game: China, arms control, and multilateralism	p. 51
Regional security	p. 73
China's multilateralism and regional order	p. 75
China and the North Korean nuclear problem: diplomatic initiative, strategic complexities, and relevance of security multilateralism	p. 90
China and SCO: towards a new type of interstate relations	p. 104
Chinese and ASEAN responses to the US Regional Maritime Security Initiative	p. 127
Maritime security and multilateral interactions between China and its neighbours	p. 147
Peaceful rise?	p. 173
Intentions on trial: "peaceful rise" and Sino-ASEAN relations	p. 175
Peaceful rise? Soft power? Human rights in China's new multilateralism	p. 198
China's petroleum diplomacy: Hu Jintao's biggest challenge in foreign and security policy	p. 222
China's multilateralism and its impact on cross-strait relations: a view from Taipei	p. 241
An exception to the growing emphasis on multilateralism: the case of China's policy towards Hong Kong	p. 253
Conclusion	p. 265
Multiple levels of multilateralism: the rising China in the turbulent world	p. 267
Index	p. 290
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