Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 Red light, green light: China and the World Trade Organisation -- chapter 2 Flying geese and rising phoenix: China, APEC and exclusive trade regimes -- chapter 3 Chimeras or peacebuilders? China's new approach to strategic regimes -- chapter 4 Labyrinth's edge: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation -- chapter 5 Seeking modernity: China's institutional openings and shifts in international power
Summary
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory. How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power with international institutions? This new study explores why China has chosen to abandon its previous doctrine of institutional isolation and details how it is currently unable to balance American power unilaterally and details an indirect path to greater power. In addition, it includes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-222) and index