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China and India: Cooperation or Conflict?Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Jing-dong Yuan The hardline view of Sino-Indian relations found in the published reports of Indian and Chinese security analysts is often at considerable odds with the more tempered opinions those same analysts express in private interviews and conversations. What is the reality of the increasingly important security relationship between the two countries? The authors of this new study address that question in More > | ![]() |
China and India: Great Power RivalsMohan Malik Despite burgeoning trade and cultural links, China and India remain fierce competitors in a world of global economic rebalancing, power shifts, resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and other transnational security threats. Mohan Malik explores this increasingly important and complex relationship, grounding his analysis in the history of the two countries.
Malik describes a geopolitical More > | ![]() |
China and the Energy Equation in Asia: The Determinants of Policy ChoiceJean A. Garrison Why does China act as it does in its pursuit of energy security? Are “resource wars” inevitable? Going beyond traditional analyses that focus on China as a regional and global threat, Jean Garrison sheds new light on the roots of the country’s energy policy and the constraints that it faces.
Garrison eschews the zero-sum approaches that underlie much conceptualization of the More > | ![]() |
China Engages Latin America: Tracing the TrajectoryAdrian H. Hearn and José Luis León-Manríquez, editors What inroads is China making in Latin America? In China Engages Latin America, experts from three continents provide local answers to this global question.
The authors explore the multiple motivations driving the establishment of new Sino–Latin American linkages, the nature of those linkages, and the reactions that they have generated. They also examine how China–Latin America More > | ![]() |
China in Africa: In Zheng He’s FootstepsLi Xinfeng, translated by Shelly Bryant Some six centuries ago, the great Chinese explorer and diplomat Zheng He set sail to blaze a trail across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa. In 2002, Li Xinfeng set out to find traces of Zheng's several journeys in Africa. The result is the compelling China in Africa: In Zheng He’s Footsteps.
Beginning on Kenya's Pate Island, Li's comprehensive research led him to More > | ![]() |
China in Latin America: The Whats and WhereforesR. Evan Ellis With China on the minds of many in Latin America—from politicians and union leaders to people on the street, from business students to senior bankers—a number of important questions arise. Why, for example, is China so rapidly expanding its ties with the region? What is the nature of the new connection, and how will it affect institutions, economic structures, politics, and society? R. More > | ![]() |
China in World Politics: Policies, Processes, Prospects, 2nd EditionJudith F. Kornberg and John R. Faust Introducing students to China's foreign policy, the authors outline the political, security, economic, and social issues the country faces in the emerging 21st century.
Each chapter of the book familiarizes the reader with the Chinese framework for analyzing the issues in question. Alternate policy choices are suggested, along with supporting data for each course of action. Discussion and More > | ![]() |
China Moves West: The Evolving Strategies of the Belt and Road InitiativeAnoushiravan Ehteshami, Benjamin Houghton, and Jia Liu, editors In September 2013, Xi Jinping announced the launch of a Chinese-led megaproject, the Belt and Road Initiative, that would transform Asia's position within the global economy. Some ten years on, the BRI, while facing significant obstacles, has gone from strength to strength.
How has China’s BRI diplomacy affected its image across Asia? What does the BRI mean for Sino-US competition? More > | ![]() |
China Opens Its Doors: The Politics of Economic TransitionJude Howell China Opens Its Doors explains and documents the complex relationship between the politics and economics of China's recent "Open Policy," covering the period from 1978 up to the Party Congress of November 1992.
Though emphasizing the political essence of this policy process, Howell also looks at the sociopolitical changes that it has engendered, including its impact on the state and More > | |
China UnderJiang ZeminHung-mao Tien and Yun-han Chu, editors China Under Jiang Zemin represents the first major scholarly effort to analyze the evolution of China’s new leadership, taking as its starting point the pivotal Fifteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in September 1997.
Proceeding from a detailed portrait of the political landscape at the opening of the Jiang Zemin era, the authors provide rich detail of the various More > |