China and international institutions : alternate paths to global power /
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power with...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2005.
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Colección: | Asian security studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- ASIAN SECURITY STUDIES
- CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- China as a great power
- Defining institutions
- Risks and rewards of institutional engagement for China
- 1) Promotion of external peace and stability
- 2) Perpetuation of regime and domestic stability
- 3) Reduction of the risks and costs of information gathering
- 4) Attainment of effective relations with other great powers
- 5) Economic development and security
- 6) Acquisition of greater prestige
- Why institutions matter for China
- 1 RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT
- Introduction: the closed door
- The long road back
- 'Jumping into the sea'
- Endgame
- Risks and contradictions
- Rewards and gains
- Conclusions: to whom the good?
- 2 FLYING GEESE AND RISING PHOENIX
- Introduction: large clubs, small clubs
- China and APEC
- Unlikely oasis: China and the Asian financial crisis
- Post-crisis APEC relations
- School's in: China's education within APEC
- Pass the spaghetti: The ASEAN-Plus-Three and other PTAs
- Community or hegemony?
- 3 CHIMERAS OR PEACEBUILDERS?
- Diplomacy revisited? China and changes in Asian security
- The origins of the ARF
- China and the 'Track II' connection
- Limitations to the ARF: the cases of Taiwan and the South China Sea
- Perception shift
- China and the Korean nuclear crisis
- Conclusions: the sociable dragon?
- 4 LABYRINTH'S EDGE
- China regards Eurasia
- Good fences make good neighbours: the origins of the 'Five'
- Demonstrating confidence: foundations of the SCO
- Fundamentalism and 'splittism' in China's backyard
- The 'black gold' variable
- The United States and the SCO in a post-9/11 world
- SCO cooperation and benefits for China
- The SCO's next role: cooperation model or chess piece?
- 5 SEEKING MODERNITY
- China steps out
- The advantages of institutions I: economic regimes
- The advantages of institutions II: strategic regimes
- Gains, losses, and Chinese power
- The eagle meets the dragon
- Reconsidering modern-day great powers
- Implications for international relations
- Scenes from a Chinese crossroads
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.