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Responding to China’s Rise

US and EU Strategies

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Vinod K. Aggarwal

    1. University of California Berkeley APEC Study Center, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Sara A. Newland

    1. 1 Bow Street, Harvard College Writing Program, Cambridge, USA

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  • Examines the rise of China in the current world order from both the perspective of China and that of the West, with attention to both economic and security issues
  • Addresses the relevance of China’s rise to the dominant Western theories of international relations and compares these theories to contemporary Chinese theories of international relations
  • Suggests changes that need to take place for rising powers like China to successfully integrate into the current world order

Part of the book series: The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific (PEAP, volume 15)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Vinod K. Aggarwal, Sara A. Newland
      Pages 3-23

  3. China’s Rise in Historical Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. China, Hegemony, and Leadership in East Asia

      • David C. Kang
      Pages 27-49

    3. The Myth of Chinese Exceptionalism: A Historical Perspective on China’s Rise

      • Yuan-kang Wang
      Pages 51-74

  4. China’s Current Rise: A Chinese Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The Construction of Uncertainty and Threat: Theoretical Debates on China’s Rise

      • Jisheng Sun
      Pages 77-97

    3. Rising China: Political Leadership, Foreign Policy, and “Chineseness”

      • Yinhong Shi
      Pages 99-110

  5. European and American Responses to China’s Emergence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. US–China Economic Integration and its Implications for US Policy in the Taiwan Strait

      • Scott L. Kastner
      Pages 113-129

    3. Explaining Economic Frictions Between China and the European Union

      • Jonathan Holslag
      Pages 131-150

    4. China’s Rise: Towards a Division of Labor in Transatlantic Relations

      • Øystein Tunsjø
      Pages 151-174

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 175-179
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In this edited volume, a set of issue and country experts tackle questions regarding China’s current rise to power within the current international economic and political order. The current international system is governed by a “Western” conception of order and based on the primacy of post–World War II rules, drawn from liberal models of capitalism and democracy practiced in the US and in Western Europe. In this context, the most important and most uncertain questions facing the West over the next decade concern how the EU and the US will respond to China’s rapid growth. Will the transatlantic relationship hold and become stronger, faced with this new economic and geopolitical challenge? Or will the US and the EU—an increasingly prominent global player—compete for economic and political advantage? After a brief introduction laying out the circumstances of China’s economic and political rise and the challenges that this poses to the existing international order, the book proceeds in three sections. The first section provides competing theoretical perspectives on China’s rise in a historical context. The second section provides a distinctly Chinese perspective on China’s current rise. The third section looks at responses from the United States and the European Union, focusing on both economic and security issues as well as the implications of China’s rise for US-EU relations. This book is relevant to both scholars and policymakers concerned with Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, US foreign policy, EU foreign policy, China-US relations, China-EU relations, international security, international political economy and emerging markets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California Berkeley APEC Study Center, Berkeley, USA

    Vinod K. Aggarwal

  • 1 Bow Street, Harvard College Writing Program, Cambridge, USA

    Sara A. Newland

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