Will China’s Rise Be Peaceful?: The Rise of a Great Power in Theory, History, Politics, and the Future 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190675394,019067539X
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- ISBN-13: 978-0190675394
- Author: Asle Toje
Bringing together the work of seasoned experts and younger scholars, this volume offers an inclusive examination of the effects of historical patterns-whether interrupted or intact-by the rise of China. The contributors show how strategies among the major powers are guided by existing international rules and expectations as well as by the realities created by an increasingly powerful China.
While China has sought to signal its non-revisionist intent its extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy has in a short time span transformed global and East Asian politics. This has caused constant readjustments as the other key actors have responded to the changing incentives provided by Chinese policies. Will China’s Rise be Peaceful? explores these continuities and discontinuities in five areas: theory, history, domestic politics, regional politics, and great power politics.
Equally grounded in theory and extensive empirical research, this timely volume offers a remarkably lucid description and interpretation of our changing international relations. In both its approach and its conclusions, it will serve as a model for the study of China in a new era.
Table of contents:
Part I China and the International Order
1 Rising Powers and the Risks of War: A Realist View of Sino-American Relations
2 A New Order of Things? China, America, and the Struggle over World Order
3 Not Quite the Same as It Ever Was: Power Shifts and Contestation over the American-Led World Order
4 Restraints on Conflict in the China-US Relationship: Contesting Power Transition Theory
Part II Historical Perspectives
5 The Rise and Fall of Great Powers: The Uses of History
6 The Sound of Distant Thunder: The Pre-World War I Anglo-German Rivalry as a Model for Sino-American Relations in the Early Twenty-First Century
7 The Weight of the Past in China’s Relations with Its Asian Neighbors
Part III Domestic Dimensions
8 The Rise and Fall of the China Model: Implications for World Peace
9 Curtailing China’s Rise before the Real Takeoff? Censorship, Social Protests, and Political Legitimacy
Part IV Domestic Politics—International Policies
10 Is China a Global Power?
11 Despite the “New Assertiveness,” China Is Not Up for Challenging the Global Order
Part V China and Its Rivals
12 Coexistence in China’s Regional and Global Maritime Security Strategies: Revisionism by Defensive Means
13 The Rise of China in Asia: Japan at the Nexus
14 Can India Balance China in Asia?
15 Axis of Opposition: China, Russia, and the West
16 How Should the US Respond to a Rising China?