Handbook of China's International Relations (Routledge International Handbooks)

278 Pages·2010·2.37 MB·English

by  Shaun Breslin

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Handbook of China s
International Relations

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Handbook of China s
International Relations
Editor: Shaun Breslin
Firstedition2010
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Contents
List of contributors viii
Foreword xiv
Abbreviations xv
Map of the People’s Republic of China xvii
1 Introduction: China’s new diplomacy: old wine in a new bottle? 1
JEAN-PIERRECABESTAN
PARTI
Ideas and interests 11
2 Researching international relations in China: from security to international
political economy 13
WANGZHENGYI
3 Policy-making processes of Chinese foreign policy: the role of policy communities
and think tanks 22
QUANSHENGZHAO
4 Popular participation: civil society, diverse publics and internet in response to
Chinese diplomacy 35
SIMONSHEN

PARTII
Issues 45
5 Keeping the past alive: the use of history in China’s foreign relations 47
CHRISTIANA.HESS
6 On being sovereign during a time of increased interdependence: China’s
evolving approach to sovereignty and its implications for Chinese
foreign relations 55
ALLENCARLSON
vi Contents
7 Oiling the wheels of foreign policy? Energy security and China’s
international relations 64
ZHADAOJIONGANDSHAUNBRESLIN
8 Human rights and China’s international relations 76
ROSEMARYFOOT
9 China’s soft power diplomacy in the 21st century 85
KERRYBROWN
10 China and global governance: status quo power or challenge to the
global order? 94
GIOVANNIB.ANDORNINO
11 Integrating into the international community? Chinese peace-keeping
operations 106
SHOGOSUZUKI
12 Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: aims and implications 114
TAIMINGCHEUNG
PARTIII
Relations 127
13 Less beautiful, still somewhat imperialist: Beijing eyes Sino-US relations 129
GREGORYJ.MOORE
14 China and Japan: between co-operation and competition 138
REINHARDDRIFTE
15 China’s ‘backyard’: relations with the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia 147
ROBERTG.SUTTER
16 China’s relations with Europe: towards a ‘normal’ relationship? 156
CHENZHIMINANDJOHNARMSTRONG

17 Security, strategy and the former USSR: China and the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation 166
MARCLANTEIGNE
18 Playing by the rules? Sino-Middle Eastern relations 177
MUHAMADOLIMAT
19 A challenge to the global liberal order? the growing Chinese relationship
with Africa 187
IANTAYLOR
Contents vii
20 China’s deepening ties with Latin America: a work in progress 200
RIORDANROETT
21 South Asia in China’s strategic calculus 209
DAVIDSCOTT
22 Looking south: China’s Oceanic relations 219
NICHOLASTHOMAS
Bibliography 227
Index 249
List of contributors
Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of
Warwick, United Kingdom. He is co-editor of the Pacific Review, and Associate Fellow of
the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Professor Breslin’s
publications include International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (with Richard Higgott, four
vols, Sage, forthcoming), China and the Global Political Economy (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007,
paperback edn 2009), and Mao (Longman, 2000).
Giovanni B. Andornino is Lecturer in International Relations of East Asia at the Uni-
versity of Turin, Italy and the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. He is Vice-President
of T.wai, the Torino World Affairs Institute. He gained his doctorate in International
Relations at the Catholic University of Milan. Dr Andornino is the author of Dopo la
muraglia.LaCinanellapoliticainternazionaledelXXIsecolo(VitaePensiero,2008)andGeneral
Editor of TheChinaCompanion (www.thechinacompanion.eu), a comprehensive web
portal specializing in Chinese politics, international relations and political economy. Dr
AndorninoisaFellowoftheTransatlanticAcademyoftheGermanMarshallFundofthe
United States (2010) and Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s
Republic of China.
John Armstrong is a European Union (EU)-China relations specialist and negotiations
analyst. A graduate of the University of Limerick, Ireland, he worked in 2006–08 as a
visiting scholar at the China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, People’s Republic of
China and, from September 2008, at Fudan University’s School of International Rela-
tions, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. His research priorities include rule of law
and policy transfer promotion, and Asian regional governance initiatives. He teaches
primarily on EU foreign policy and regional governance.

Kerry Brown is a writer, lecturer and consultant on China and Asia, and Senior Fellow,
Asia Programme, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs). He worked
at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), London, United Kingdom in the
China Section. There, in 2000–03 he was First Secretary, Beijing and in 2003–05 he
wasHeadoftheIndonesiaEastTimorSection.HeisaResearchAssociateoftheCentrefor
International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London and currently sits on the board of the Great Britain China Centre. He is also
ExecutiveDirectoroftheLiverpoolShanghaiPartnershipandanAssociate oftheChina
Policy Institute at Nottingham University, United Kingdom. He is an advisory editor to
theBerkshireEncyclopediaofChina,publishedin2009,andeditoroftheBerkshireEncyclopedia
ofChineseBiography(forthcoming,2010).Hehasauthoredanumberofbooksandbriefing
List of contributors ix
papers on China, including Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century (2007), The Rise of the
Dragon –Chinese Investment Flows inthe Reform Period(2008)andFriends and Enemies: The Past,
Present and Future of the Communist Party of China (2009).
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Professor and Head, Department of Government and Interna-
tionalStudiesatHongKongBaptistUniversity.HeisalsoAssociateResearcherattheAsia
CentreatSciencesPo,Paris,France.In2003–07hewasSeniorResearcherattheFrench
National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique),
attached to the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris 1. In 1998–2003
he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre
d’études français sur la Chine contemporaine—CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor
of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. In 1994–98, he was Director of the Taipei
OfficeoftheCEFC.Hismostrecentpublicationsinclude(withBenoîtVermander)LaChine
enquêtedesesfrontières–LaconfrontationChine–Taiwan(Paris,PressesdesSciencesPo,2005),
translatedandpublishedinChineseasaspecialissueofthejournalRenlai(Taipei,January
2007), La Chine et la Russie: entre convergences et méfiance (Paris, Unicomm, 2008, co-author),
and La politique internationale de la Chine. Entre intégration et volonté de puissance (China’s inter-
nationalpolicy.Betweenintegrationandwillofpower),Paris,PressesdeSciencesPo,2010.
HehasalsopublishednumerousarticlesandcontributionsinEnglishonChina’spolitical
system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese
politics. He received his PhD from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
AllenCarlsonisAssociateProfessorinthegovernmentDepartmentatCornellUniversity,
Ithaca, New York, USA. His publications include Rethinking Security in East Asia (co-ed.,
with J.J. Suh and Peter Katzenstein, Stanford University Press, Asian Security Series,
2004) and Unifying China, Integrating with the World: The Chinese Approach to Sovereignty During
the Reform Era (Stanford University Press, 2005).
Chen Zhimin is a Jean Monnet Chair Professor in the Department of International Poli-
tics, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai,
People’s Republic of China. He is a member of the editorial committee for The Pacific
Review. He has published extensively on European foreign policy, Chinese foreign policy
and diplomacy studies.
Tai Ming Cheung is Associate Research Scientist, Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation and Associate Adjunct Professor in the School of International Relations
and PacificStudies, both ofUniversity ofCalifornia,San Diego,USA.He is along-time
analyst of Chinese and East Asian defence and security affairs. His publications include

Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy (Cornell University Press,
2009).HiscurrentresearchinterestsfocusonChineseandEastAsiansecurity,technology,
innovation and political economy issues.
Reinhard Drifte is Emeritus Professor,NewcastleUniversity, UnitedKingdom, Associate
Fellow,RoyalUnitedServicesInstitute,London,UnitedKingdomandChercheurAssocié
au Centre de recherche et d’études en gestion (CREG) of Pau University, France. He
was Chair of Japanese Studies atNewcastle University in 1989–2002. His main research
interests are Japan’s foreign and security policy, security issues in Northeast Asia, and
EU–Northeast Asian relations. His publications include Japan’s security relationship with
China since 1989 – From balancing to bandwagoning? (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese
Studies Series, Oxford/London 2003).