Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy The Micro-Macro Linkage Approach

by Zhao, Quansheng

• ISBN13: 9780195874303
• ISBN10: 0195874307
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book applies the micro-macro linkage approach to Chinese foreign policy. The author examines the processes, situations, and structures of Chinese foreign policy and analyzes the effect of the international environment and domestic constraints. He explores the key trends of modernization, nationalism, and regionalism, and reviews the literature of and approaches towards Chinese foreign policy.

Author Biography

Quansheng Zhao is an associate professor of political science at the American University's School of International Service, and Associate-in-Research of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Foreword	p. ix
List of Abbreviations and Chinese Terms	p. xiv
Tables	p. xvi
Figures	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy	p. 3
The Micro-Macro Linkage Approach	p. 18
Micro-Macro Analyses: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Power	p. 37
China's Symbolic Macrostructure and Changing Priorities	p. 39
Institutional Macrostructure and the Policy-making Process	p. 78
Power/Regime Macrostructure and Strategy and Tactics	p. 115
Case Study: Japan's Official Development Assistance to China	p. 148
Conclusions: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era	p. 183
Modernization, Nationalism, and Regionalism	p. 185
Policy Choices and New Research Agenda	p. 229
Appendices
The Chinese Communist Party Leadership	p. 254
The PRC State Leadership	p. 256
References	p. 257
Index	p. 275
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