New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy

by Johnston, Alastair Iain

• ISBN13: 9780804753630
• ISBN10: 0804753636
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-09
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This book brings together several generations of specialists in Chinese foreign policy to present readers with current research on both new and traditional topics. The authors draw on a wide range of new materialsarchives, documents, memoirs, opinion polls, and interviewsto examine traditional issues such as China's use of force from 1959 to the present, and new issues such as China's response to globalization, its participation in several international economic institutions, and the role of domestic opinion in its foreign policy. The book also offers a number of suggestions about the topics, methods, and sources that the Chinese foreign policy field needs to examine and address if it is to grow in richness, rigor, and relevance.

Author Biography

Alastair Iain Johnston is the Laine Professor of China and the World at Harvard University. Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Research Associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	ix
Contributors	xi
Editors' Preface	xv
1. Introduction
ROBERT S. ROSS AND ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON
Part I. Security Studies
2. Comparative Deterrence: The Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula	13	(37)
ROBERT S. ROSS
3. Windows and War: Trend Analysis and Beijing's Use of Force	50	(36)
THOMAS J. CHRISTENSEN
4. China's Decision for War with India in 1962	86	(45)
JOHN W. GARVER
5. Across the Yalu: China's Interests and the Korean Peninsula in a Changing World	131	(31)
AVERY GOLDSTEIN
6. The Limits of Economic Interdependence: Sino-Japanese Relations	162	(24)
MICHAEL YAHUDA
7. Reputation and the Security Dilemma: China Reacts to the China Threat Theory	186	(31)
YONG DENG
Part II. China and Globalization
8. More Than Just Saying No: China's Evolving Approach to Sovereignty and Intervention Since Tiananmen	217	(25)
ALLEN CARLSON
9. China in Geneva: Lessons from China's Early Years in the World Trade Organization	242	(34)
MARGARET M. PEARSON
10. Chinese Foreign Policy Faces Globalization Challenges	276	(33)
SAMUEL S. KIM
Part III. Domestic Politics
11. Identity and Conflict in Sino-American Relations	309	(31)
PETER HAYS GRIES
12. The Correlates of Beijing Public Opinion Toward the United States, 1998-2004	340	(39)
ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON
13. Conclusions and Future Directions	379	(42)
THOMAS J. CHRISTENSEN, ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON, AND ROBERT S. ROSS
Select Bibliography	421	(42)
Index	463