Contents: 1. Opening remarks at 2008 Seminar on International Situation. 2. International recognition of the Chinese rejuvenation: Retrospect on China's Diplomacy over thirty years of reform and opening-up. 3. Development and strategic significance of China's Multilateral Diplomacy since reform and opening-up. 4. Thirty years of dynamic growth of China-Arab relations. 5. On Sino-Japanese r…
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now dead. Despite the almost-religious certainty with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds the original promise of the global ideal that the fading power of nation states would be replaced by global markets that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events and that…
The contents of this book: 1. The Foreign Policy Presidency: Power and Problems 2. The Development of the National Security Council System 3. The National Security Council System at the End of the Cold War 4. Congress and Foreign Policy, etc.
After the successful conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012 as well as the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2013, Chinese diplomacy has stepped into a new phrase under the guidance of the new core leadership of China. With many achievements, China focuses on long-term interests and strategic overal…
This book is an exercise, by regional specialists, in assessing the different dimensions of India-ASEAN relations. As the Asia-Pacific has become the foci of great power involvement, one cannot ignore the relevance of such involvement to India-ASEAN relations. Dealing with ASEAN means engaging its individual member countries as well as those other powers and forums affiliated with that organiza…
The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth.Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most o…
The contents of this book: 1. The Road to Baghdad 2. Imperial Hubris/Imperial Overextension 3. Contemporary Capitalism's Classic Crisis 4. The Ascendancy of Finance 5. The Economics of Anti-development
Focusing on Us policies towards the Single European Market, this volume analyzes the changing character of foreign economic policy. It argues that an erosion of the boundaries demarcating foreign and domestic policy has occurred as a result of developments on both domestic and international fronts. Consequently, the conduct of policy has become more densely textured, as parties from subnational…
It is a story about how the rapid and often chaotic industrialization of the most populous country on the planet has put China on a collision course with the rest of the world. The emergence of China as an economic superpower is currently moving on a path that will affect literally every nation and every person in the world, and potentially cause great turmoil and conflict. The primary purpose …
The prospect of a new, rapidly rising China poses both opportunities and challenges for regional community building in Asia Pacific. In this book, intellectual leaders from the region present their perspectives on China's development.