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CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IBD

ROUTLEDGE
08 / 2010
9780415576079
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Sinopsis

Despite BeijingâÇÖs repeated assurance that ChinaâÇÖs rise will be 'peaceful', the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of ChinaâÇÖs Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of China. Although ChinaâÇÖs rise could be seen as inevitable, it remains uncertain as to how a politically and economically powerful China will behave, and how it will conduct its relations with the outside world. One major problem with understanding ChinaâÇÖs international relations is that western concepts of international relations only partially explain ChinaâÇÖs approach. ChinaâÇÖs own flourishing, indigeneous community of international relations scholars have borrowed many concepts from the west, but their application has not been entirely successful, so the work of conceptualizing and theorizing ChinaâÇÖs approach to international relations remains incomplete. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of China studies, thisábook focuses on the work of Wang Gungwu - one of the most influential scholars writing on international relations - including topics such as empire, nation-state, nationalism, state ideology, and the Chinese view of world order. Besides honouring Wang Gungwu as a great scholar, the book explores how China can be integrated more fully into international relations studies and theories, discusses the extent to which existing IR theory succeeds or fails to explain Chinese IR behaviour, and demonstrates how the study of Chinese experiences can enrich the IR field.