China and the New International Order

by Gungwu; Wang

• ISBN13: 9780415441117
• ISBN10: 0415441110
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores China's place in the ?new international order?, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ?international order?, as viewed by the United States, and with the United States seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China. The contributors offer the implications, both positive and negative, of China's growing economic power, and the possibility that China will increase its military power. They also examine the idea that the Chinese leadership is being carried along itself by events in China, which it does not fully control, and that other growing forces within China, such as nationalism, increasing social grievances, structural instability, and rivalry between the centre and the regions potentially work against China's growing strength in theinternational arena. Considering traditional Chinese notions of ?international? power, where the world is seen as sino-centric, with neighbouring countries subservient to China in varying degrees, the book argues that this represents a fundamentally different view of the international order, one where the equal sovereignty of every state does not apply, where there is an acknowledged hierarchy of power, and where domestic and international issues are highly interdependent.

Table of Contents

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List of contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Key issues in conceptualizing Chinese international relations	p. 19
China and the international order: Some historical perspectives	p. 21
Nationalism: Dynamics of domestic transformation and international relations in China	p. 32
Redefining the Chinese concept of sovereignty	p. 53
Sovereignty in exercise: Constructing political Chinese-ness in post-1997 Hong Kong	p. 81
Beyond symbiosis: The changing civil-military relationship after Mao	p. 101
China and globalization	p. 125
China reshapes the world economy	p. 127
Understanding Chinese views of the emerging global order	p. 149
China joins global governance: The 10 conundrums	p. 168
China and regionalism	p. 185
Contested international relations theory and China's constructing regional entitlement	p. 187
Learning from the EU?: China's changing outlook toward multilateralism	p. 203
Northeast Asia regionalism and China: From an outside-in perspective	p. 218
China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization	p. 237
China and ASEAN in Asian regional integration	p. 256
China and international relations studies	p. 279
Deconstructing Cultural Realism	p. 281
Toward a Chinese school of International Relations?	p. 293
Index	p. 310
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