Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior

Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7656-1285-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Suisheng

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior Part One. Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Behavior 2. Security Challenge of an Ascendant China: Great Power Emergence and International Stability 3. Four Contradictions Constraining China’s Foreign Policy Behavior 4. Chinese Nationalism and Pragmatic Foreign Policy Behavior Part Two. Ideology, Strategic Culture, and Pragmatism 5. Pragmatic Calculations of National Interest: China’s Hong Kong Policy, 1949-1997 6. Soldiers, Statesmen, Strategic Culture, and China’s 1950 Intervention in Korea 7. Traditional Chinese Military Thinking: A Comparative Perspective 8. Beijing’s Perception of the International System and Foreign Policy Adjustment after the Tiananmen Incident 9. China’s Pragmatic Approach to Non-proliferation Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Part Three. Strategic Relations with the Major Powers and Asian-Pacific Neighbors 10. Patterns and Dynamics of China’s International Strategic Behavior 11. Ghost of the Strategic Triangle: The Sino-Russian Partnership 12. The Clash of Ideas: Ideology and Sino-U.S. Relations 13. Making the Right Choices in Twenty-first Century Sino-American Relations 14. The Making of China’s Periphery Policy 15. Constructing the Dragon’s Scales: China’s Approach to Territorial Sovereignty and Border Relations 16. Rituals, Risks, and Rivalries: China and ASEAN

Über Autor(innen)

Suisheng Zhao is an associate professor and Executive Director of the Center for China[1]U.S. Cooperation at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was the recipient of the 1999-2000 Campbell National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, and a member of the Board of Directors at the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP). An author and editor of four books, his most recent are Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 and China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China.