China And The World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces The New Millennium [Hardcover]

As the postwar international system continues its dramatic transformation, the fundamental question of what role China will play is becoming increasingly central. Contributors to the volume focus on the developments of the post-Tiananmen years, addressing the issues raised by China's expanding and increasingly complex relationships with a rapidly cPreface to the Fourth Edition -- Theory and Practice -- Chinese Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice -- Structure and Process in the Making of Chinese Foreign Policy -- International Structures and Chinese Foreign Policy -- Interactions -- Sino-American Relations: Practicing Damage Control -- Sino-Russian Relations -- Japan and Europe in Chinese Foreign Relations -- China and the Third World: Patterns of Engagement and Indifference -- Policies and Issues -- Force and Diplomacy: China Prepares for the Twenty-First Century -- [In] [ter]dependence in Chinas Post-Cold War Foreign Relations -- Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations -- China and the Multilateral Economic Institutions -- Chinas Environmental Diplomacy -- Prospects -- Chinese Foreign Policy: Retrospect and ProspectThis book poses and addresses several main questions about the major sources, patterns, and consequences of Chinese foreign policy behavior. It represents a joint venture into the seemingly forbidden territory of interdisciplinary inquiry in the study of Chinese foreign policy.USCopyright ? 1998 Taylor & Francis