Handbook of China’s International Relations 1st edition by Shaun Breslin 9781136938450 1136938451

1 Introduction: China’s new diplomacy: old wine in a new bottle?

PART I Ideas and interests

2 Researching international relations in China: from security to international political economy

3 Policy-making processes of Chinese foreign policy: the role of policy communities and think tanks

4 Popular participation: civil society, diverse publics and internet in response to Chinese diplomacy

PART II Issues

5 Keeping the past alive: the use of history in China’s foreign relations

6 On being sovereign during a time of increased interdependence: China’s evolving approach to sovereignty and its implications for Chinese foreign relations

7 Oiling the wheels of foreign policy? Energy security and China’s international relations

8 Human rights and China’s international relations

9 China’s soft power diplomacy in the 21st century

10 China and global governance: status quo power or challenge to the global order?

11 Integrating into the international community? Chinese peace-keeping operations

12 Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: aims and implications

PART III Relations

13 Less beautiful, still somewhat imperialist: Beijing eyes Sino-US relations

14 China and Japan: between co-operation and competition

15 China’s ‘backyard’: relations with the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia

16 China’s relations with Europe: towards a ‘normal’ relationship?

17 Security, strategy and the former USSR: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

18 Playing by the rules? Sino-Middle Eastern relations

19 A challenge to the global liberal order? the growing Chinese relationship with Africa

20 China’s deepening ties with Latin America: a work in progress

21 South Asia in China’s strategic calculus

22 Looking south: China’s Oceanic relations