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Strategic Partnerships in Asia
MAJOR WORK
MAJOR WORK
Balancing without Alliances
4-VOLUME SET
4-VOLUME SET
Vidya Nadkarni, University of San Diego, USA
China’s International Relations in Asia
Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics
Edited by Mingjiang Li
Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba and Jonathan Unger, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Australia
This book addresses the strategies pursued by potential challengers to American global pre-eminence through a careful examination of the nature and implications of the increasing interaction among three secondary powers: China, Russia and India. In particular, it focuses on the important region of Asia/Eurasia, where these countries seek to increase their influence and compete against the prominence of the United States. It breaks new ground in looking at the ways in which the triad of bilateral strategic partnerships among China, Russia, and India affect individual aspirations for power, status, and wealth and intersect with or diverge from the U.S. goal of maintaining its global pre-eminence. Clearly written, the author carefully introduces the subject and provides a thorough analysis of the balance of power in Asia. It will be a useful text for courses on international relations, foreign policy and Asian and Russian politics. Selected Contents: Part 1: Strategic Partnerships: Stealth Balancing in a Unipolar World? 1. Unipolarity and its Implications for the Balance of Power in Eurasia 2. Strategic Partnerships in Asia and Eurasia Part 2: Bilateral Strategic Partnerships 3. Sino-Russian Partnership 4. Indo-Russian Partnership 5. Sino-Indian Partnership Part 3: Competitive Versus Integrative Strategies 6. Geopolitics or Geoeconomics: A Hegemon in Eurasia? 7. Integrative Strategies Part 4: Nested Games, Contingent Outcomes 8. Conclusion November 2009: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-77774-2: £80.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77775-9: £22.99
Series: Critical Issues in Modern Politics The startling growth of China’s economic and military power, as well as its cultural influence, is having a huge impact on the rest of the world. The key region to observe this impact is, of course, Asia and the past decade has witnessed significant and multi-faceted changes in China’s policy toward its Asian neighbours and in the relations between them. The strategic dimension of China’s approaches to Asian international relations is increasingly a focal point in the scholarly community and policy-making circles. However, views on the strategic impact of China’s rise on Asia’s political and security future are polarized, with some believing that China’s regional policy is an intentional attempt to challenge the US supremacy in Asia, or who are simply suspicious of China’s long-term regional ambitions. Volume I of this new Routledge Major Work collection examines China’s long-term strategy in Asia, and Volume II looks at China and nontraditional security in Asia. Volume III focuses on China and Asian regionalism, while Volume IV assembles the best scholarship on the response of Asian states to the rise of China and how China’s rise and its increasing influence in the region have changed the foreign and security policy of those regional states and their domestic political economies.
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China’s International Relations in Asia is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. October 2009: 234x156: 1600pp Hb: 978-0-415-47691-1: £650.00
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Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics collects the best foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on Mao-era and contemporary Chinese society and politics. Adopting a dual approach, on the one hand, to address the increasing fascination about China among Western scholars and students from a number of disciplines, it collects the best work that empirically describes Chinese society and its politics. On the other hand, to examine the theoretical implications of the study of Chinese society for Western social science, it also brings together the best work to have used empirical examinations of the People’s Republic to interrogate theories developed in Western contexts or to develop new theoretical positions. The editors have in particular paid especial attention to cases where debates have arisen about the proper ways of describing and theorizing Chinese governance and social dynamics. Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource. Selected Contents: Volume 1: The Maoist Era 1. The Maoist Era 2. The Political System 3. The 1950s and Early 1960s 4. Cultural Revolution Upheaval (1966-68) and the Maoist ‘70s 5. Social Order and Hierarchy under Mao 6. Social and Gender Relation Volume 2: Politics and Social Institutions 1. Theories of Culture and Power in the PRC 2. Governing after Mao 3. Changing Economic and Administrative Institutions 4. The Legal and Policing Systems 5. Nationalism 6. Authoritarianism and Democratization Volume 3: Urban China 1. Governing Urban Spaces 2. The Chinese Mass Media and Internet 3. Social and Economic Mobility 4. Public Opinion 5. Urban Workers 6. Rural/Urban Migration 7. The Urban Family and Sexuality Volume 4: Rural China in the Reform Era 1. Rural Politics 2. Farming in a Post-socialist Age 3. The ‘Peasant Burden’, Rural Protests, and the Poor 4. Family and Relationships in Village China 5. Teachings: Schooling and Religion 6. China’s Rural Ethnic Minorities January 2009: 234x156 Hb: 978-0-415-45748-4: £650.00
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