China and the New International Order

A rising China is often viewed with awe and apprehension as a new force for change in international politics. Too often, the focus of scholarly and policy debates has been on how the world can, and should, cope with China's rise; far too little attention is paid to how China is struggling to come to terms with its own rise. It is hardly comforting to think that major current national policies are devised based on a circumscribed view of Chinese international behavior. Indeed, for years now, China itself has been constantly engaging in soul-searching to define its relation with the current international order. How does the world look from the Chinese point of view? How does this relate to the views often depicted by "the world outside"? In this volume, the contributors look at the domestic sources of China's international behavior. Chapters explore the key concepts of nationalism, sovereignty and identities, as well as multilateralism, regionalism, international entitlement, and global governance. The volume also explores the development of international relations studies in the Chinese scholarly and policy circles to offer a glimpse of the resulting Chinese perception of the order within it resides. It brings out the highly interactive relationship between China and the outside world: whether China can reshape the international order will ultimately depend on its ability to manage domestic developments, not just economically, but politically and socially as well; and whether the world can reshape China depends heavily on China's domestic forces' acceptance of external influences.Gungwu, Wang is the author of 'China and the New International Order' with ISBN 9780415441117 and ISBN 0415441110.